That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
How one individual or group is dominated by another, more powerful individual or group through physical, psychological, social or economic threats or force, and frequently by an ideology of dominance.
severity, especially when practiced by a government that puts too heavy burden upon its citizens, in terms of taxes or unjust laws.
Unjust cruel exercise of power of authority; systematic subjugation of a social group by a group with access to social power.
The systematic exclusion, domination and unequal treatment of individuals or groups within a society.
the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted"
treating groups or individuals poorly
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment, sometimes unconscious, sometimes covert; constant state of denying to others fair and equal treatment and fair and equal opportunities
The domination of one individual or group by another, more powerful, individual or group, using cultural, economic, physical, psychological, or social threats or force, and frequently using an explicit ideology to justify the oppression.
The systematic exploitation of one societal group by another for its own benefit. The phenomenon involves institutional control, ideological domination, and the imposition of the dominant group’s culture on the oppressed.
the denial to dominated classes of their right to free political expression
The act of treating people in a cruel and unjust way.
The systematic, institutionalized, and socially condoned (elite sanctioned) mistreatment of a group in society by another group or by people acting as agents of the society as a whole.
The subjugation of one individual or group by a more powerful individual or group, using physical, psychological, social or economic threats or force, and frequently using an ideology to sanction the oppression.
Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. The term itself derives from the idea of being "weighted down."