Usually means: Imposing restrictions on freedom, expression.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. repressiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. repressiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repressiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. repressiveness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. repressiveness: Wiktionary
  6. repressiveness: Dictionary.com
  7. repressiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressiveness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repressiveness: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repressiveness)

▸ noun:  The state or condition of being repressive.

Similar:
restrictiveness, hyperrepression, suppressiveness, reclusiveness, suppression, restrainedness, oppressiveness, constraint, irrepressibility, restringency, more...

Opposite:
liberality, openness, permissiveness, tolerance



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Similar:
restrictiveness, hyperrepression, suppressiveness, reclusiveness, suppression, restrainedness, oppressiveness, constraint, irrepressibility, restringency, more...

Opposite:
liberality, openness, permissiveness, tolerance



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