how to pronounce repression

/ɹiːpˈɹɛʃən/

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repression is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of repression in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… not only illness that repression and …”

meanings of repression

noun:

The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
The act of repressing; state of being repressed.

repression frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word repression occurs in english on average 2.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics repression can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that repression can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;