THESAURUS
repression
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, aloofness, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban, barrier of secrecy, bashfulness, blackout, blankness, block, blockage, blocking, bottling up, censorship, check, chilliness, choking, clogging, closing up, closure, coldness, constraint, constriction, contraband, control, conversion, coolness, corking up, crackdown, cramp, crushing, curb, curtain, defense mechanism, delay, denial, detachment, detainment, detention, deterring, disallowance, discreetness, discretion, distance, embargo, exclusion, expressionlessness, extinction, extinguishment, fixation, foot-dragging, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, frigidity, frostiness, frustrating, frustration, guardedness, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holding, holding in, holdup, hush-up, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality, inaccessibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, interference, interruption, introversion, iron curtain, ironbound security, keeping, law, let, limitation, locking in, maintenance, mental block, modesty, negativism, no-no, nuisance value, oath of secrecy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, official secrecy, opposition, pall, preclusion, prehension, preservation, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, psychological block, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, refusal, rejection, remoteness, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restraint, restriction, restrictive covenants, retainment, retardation, retardment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, reticence, reticency, retirement, ruling out, seal of secrecy, security, setback, smashing, smothering, squashing, squeeze, squelching, standoffishness, statute, stifling, stranglehold, strangling, stricture, subdual, subduedness, subjugation, sublimation, suffocating, sumptuary laws, suppression, symbolization, taboo, tenacity, throttling, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, veil, veil of secrecy, withdrawal, withdrawnness, wraps, zoning, zoning laws
ROGET THESAURUS
repression
Restraint
N
restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint,
repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.
Counteraction
N
counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition &c, voluntary resistance,
repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety), counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary, contrary, although, in spite of, against, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.
