Oppressiveness
81Anxiety and Phobias — Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities. In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …
82oppressive — adjective 1》 harsh and authoritarian. 2》 weighing heavily on the mind or spirits. 3》 (of weather) close and sultry. Derivatives oppressively adverb oppressiveness noun …
83heaviness — n. 1. Gravity, weight, ponderousness. 2. Oppressiveness, grievousness, severity. 3. Languor, dulness, stupidity, sluggishness. 4. Dejection, depression, sadness, melancholy, despondency, gloom, low spirits, depression of spirits …
84sultriness — n. Moist heat, mugginess, oppressiveness, closeness …
85oppressive — adjective 1 powerful, cruel, and unfair: an oppressive military regime 2 weather that is oppressive is unpleasantly hot with no movement of air: The evening gradually grew more and more oppressive. 3 a situation that is oppressive makes you feel… …
86languor — noun 1) the sultry languor that was stealing over her Syn: lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, torpor, fatigue, weariness, sleepiness, drowsiness; laziness, idleness, indolence, inertia, sluggishness, apathy Ant …
87abjectness — n 1. humbleness, poorness, beggarliness, paltriness, patheticalness, pitifulness, pitiableness; shabbiness, shoddiness, dirtiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scurviness; miserableness, squalidness, starkness, hopelessness, oppressiveness;… …
88difficulty — n 1. laboriousness, arduousness, stren uousness, formidableness, formidability; labor, strain, struggle, hard sledding, rough going, tough job, hard row to hoe. 2. troublesomeness, bothersome, irksomeness, bur densomeness, oppressiveness,… …
89heaviness — n 1. heft, heftiness, weight, weightiness, ponderousness, gravity; size, volume, mass, substance, bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude. 2. turbulence, tempestuousness, storminess, wildness, roughness. 3. graveness, seriousness,… …
90guerilla theatre — /gərɪlə ˈθɪətə/ (say guhriluh theartuh) noun a mode of dramatising the oppressiveness of Western capitalism through skits, current in China during the years 1950–70, and imitated by young social critics in Western countries. Also, guerrilla… …
