All oppression synonyms
op·pres·sion
O o noun oppression
- domination — an act or instance of dominating.
- coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
- cruelty — Cruelty is behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- tyranny — arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
- repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- maltreatment — to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- conquering — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
- force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- abusiveness — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- subduing — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.