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OPPRESSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unwelcome burdensome difficulty
Synonyms:
burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("oppressiveness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Derivation:
oppressive (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of being oppressed
Synonyms:
oppression; oppressiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("oppressiveness" is a kind of...):
depression (sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oppressiveness"):
weight (an oppressive feeling of heavy force)
Derivation:
oppressive (marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior)
