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Meaning of "oppressiveness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPPRESSIVENESS

oppressiveness  [əˈpresɪvnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPPRESSIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oppressiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OPPRESSIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of oppressiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of oppressiveness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being cruel, harsh, or tyrannical. Other definition of oppressiveness is the quality or state of being heavy, constricting, or depressing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OPPRESSIVENESS


abrasiveness
əˈbreɪsɪvnəs
cohesiveness
kəʊˈhiːsɪvnəs
conclusiveness
kənˈkluːsɪvnəs
corrosiveness
kəˈrəʊsɪvnəs
diffusiveness
dɪˈfjuːsɪvnəs
excessiveness
ɪkˈsesɪvnəs
extensiveness
ɪkˈstensɪvnəs
illusiveness
ɪˈluːsɪvnəs
impressiveness
ɪmˈpresɪvnəs
inexpensiveness
ˌɪnɪkˈspensɪvnəs
intensiveness
ɪnˈtensɪvnəs
intrusiveness
ɪnˈtruːsɪvnəs
invasiveness
ɪnˈveɪsɪvnəs
obsessiveness
əbˈsɛsɪvnəs
offensiveness
əˈfensɪvnəs
pensiveness
ˈpɛnsɪvnəs
percussiveness
pəˈkʌsɪvnəs
pervasiveness
pəˈveɪsɪvnəs
repressiveness
rɪˈpresɪvnəs
suppressiveness
səˈpresɪvnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPPRESSIVENESS

oppositional
oppositionist
oppositionless
oppositive
oppress
oppressed
oppressingly
oppression
oppressive
oppressively
oppressor
opprobrious
opprobriously
opprobriousness
opprobrium
oppugn
oppugnancy
oppugnant
oppugnantly
oppugner

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPPRESSIVENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of oppressiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oppressiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPPRESSIVENESS

Find out the translation of oppressiveness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oppressiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oppressiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

压迫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

opresión
570 millions of speakers

English

oppressiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अत्याचार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اضطهاد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гнетущую
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

opressão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুরাত্মা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oppression
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penindasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterdrückung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

圧迫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oppressiveness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oppressiveness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nặng nề
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oppressiveness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दडपशाही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baskıcılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oppressiveness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ucisku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гнітючу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zădufului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταθλιπτικότης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verdrukheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

instängdhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppressiveness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oppressiveness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPPRESSIVENESS»

The term «oppressiveness» is normally little used and occupies the 128.566 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPPRESSIVENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oppressiveness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oppressiveness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oppressiveness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPPRESSIVENESS»

Discover the use of oppressiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oppressiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion: From Sorrow to Elation: ...
the preliminary stage leading to the disclosure of oppressiveness or it remains a stubborn unwillingness to face oppressiveness. Unwillingness to face oppressiveness turns into frustration and rage toward a facticity that is blind and mute to the ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2000
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, ...
The absence of oppressiveness is what fundamentally oppresses and leaves us most profoundly empty, i.e., the fundamental emptiness that bores us. This absence of oppressiveness is only apparently hidden; it is rather attested by the very ...
Martin Heidegger, 2001
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Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks
Against this "absence of oppressiveness," Heidegger seeks to awaken his contemporaries to a new revelation, an Offenbarung that could only be a leap ( Sprung) back to the origin (Ursprung), an originary leap from the first beginning.
Charles R. Bambach, 2005
4
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: ...
This being left empty ultimately resonates in our dasein, its emptiness is the absence of any essential oppressiveness. The mystery is lacking in our dasein, and thereby the inner terror that every mystery carries with it and that gives dasein its ...
Arthur Kroker, 2004
5
Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition
There is an oppressiveness about the structure of Treader and of its third act; it is the oppressiveness of the circle: the circle of events, motif, theme, language, the unbreakable bonds of dramatic Structure indexing the unbreakable bonds of ...
A. J. Boyle, 2013
6
Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of ...
a telling refusal, “the telling absence of any oppressiveness.”67 This refusal of oppressiveness does not announce something that can be understood in advance, and it is therefore not a need that oppresses. Rather, the mystery in our Dasein ...
Corinne Michelle Painter, Christian Lotz, 2007
7
Narrative, Authority and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and ...
Do not therefore seek to measure our oppressiveness or that of temporal princes, but attend rather to the common utility of all." (256-57) Tale est, inquit, frater, si recte attendas, in corpore rei publicae ubi, licet plurimum appetat magistratus, non ...
Larry Scanlon, 2007
8
The Feminine "No!": Psychoanalysis and the New Canon
When Edna and Robert attend church at Our Lady of Lourdes, she feels the oppressiveness of the church: "A feeling of oppression and drowsiness overcame Edna during the service. Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed ...
Todd McGowan, 2001
9
Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy
“The absence of an essential oppressiveness in Dasein is the emptiness as a whole. . . . Each and everyone of us are servants of slogans, adherents to a program, but none is the custodian of the inner greatness of Dasein in its necessities.
Claude Cernuschi, 2012
10
Ethical Issues in Social Work
The more fundamental concept of 'anti- oppressiveness', however, can be revised to produce new ways of thinking about probation values. So long as the concept of oppression is used carefully to characterise excesses of state- corporate ...
Richard Hugman, David Smith, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPPRESSIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oppressiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A new Indian neurological study decodes the creative mind
It was very powerful, electronic and punchy. Once you get over the oppressiveness of the environment, it starts getting musical,” says Narayan. «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
2
Eugene Mirman: Vegan On His Way To The Complain Store
... Mirman responds to a $15 ticket for backing into a parking spot with a full-page ad likening a New Hampshire town's oppressiveness to Iran. «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
3
7 lessons Sonia Delaunay taught us about colour and design
In interior design terms, black can create a sense of solidity and security at one end of the spectrum, and oppressiveness at the other, so deploy ... «House To Home, Jul 15»
4
One more day of heat and humidity
However, some subtle changes have decreased the oppressiveness of today's hot weather. First, dew points have dropped about 5° since ... «New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio, Jul 15»
5
Humans listening to music on the Tube
It creates a sort of audial carapace around you, blocking out the screech of wheel against track, the oppressiveness of your diminished ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
6
BWW Reviews: A Fashion-Tinged Shaggy Dog Story: EVERYTHING …
... Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV, as a screed about feminine body image and the oppressiveness of fashion. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
7
Debating Homosexuality
The fact that Islam restricts people from engaging in consensual behavior is plenty proof of the religion's oppressiveness. Actually, consent itself ... «MuslimMatters, Jul 15»
8
'Madame Bovary' Finally Gets Some Female Direction
This Bovary delights in its 19th-century environs, emphasizing the atmospheric beauty and oppressiveness of France in equal measure. «OZY, Jul 15»
9
Watching 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' In The Era Of Mass …
A heavy chain was bolted to each prisoner's right ankle “in order that the prisoner always would be aware of the oppressiveness of his ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
10
Ireland has no reason to celebrate the Battle of Waterloo
... that covered a quarter of the globe a century later and the oppressiveness of the Hapsburg and Romanov Empires who Napoleon fought? «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Oppressiveness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oppressiveness>. Apr 2024 ».
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