Supressiooni

Supressiooni is the genitive form of supressioon in Estonian, the noun meaning suppression. Suppressioon denotes the act or process of preventing something from being expressed, published, performed, or occurring. The term derives from Latin suppressio and has been adopted into Estonian usage to describe various forms of restraint across fields.

In political, legal, and social contexts, suppression often refers to censorship or the systematic restraint of information, opinions, or activities. Authorities may use laws, coercion, or surveillance to suppress dissent, while media and civil society may face restrictions aimed at limiting exposure of alternative views.

In psychology, suppression is the conscious or deliberate withholding of thoughts, feelings, or impulses from awareness. It is distinct from repression, which is typically unconscious and involuntary, and can have both short-term relief and longer-term psychological costs depending on context.

In data science and statistics, data suppression or cell suppression hides selected values in published tables to protect privacy. In signal processing, suppression describes techniques that reduce or remove unwanted signals, noise, or interference, improving the clarity of the desired signal.

In medicine and biology, immune suppression reduces the activity of the immune system to prevent transplant rejection or control autoimmune disease, with increased infection risk as a trade-off. Hormonal suppression uses medications to decrease the production or action of specific hormones for therapeutic purposes.

Legal contexts may also employ suppression in the form of gag orders or suppression of evidence, subject to judicial review and human rights considerations.