OPPRESSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oppressiveness mean? 

• OPPRESSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun OPPRESSIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of being oppressed

2. unwelcome burdensome difficulty

  Familiarity information: OPPRESSIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPRESSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of being oppressed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

oppression; oppressiveness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unwelcome burdensome difficulty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness

Hypernyms ("oppressiveness" is a kind of...):

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

Derivation:

oppressive (weighing heavily on the senses or spirit)

 Context examples 

But the mystery and oppressiveness vanished after the first few seconds of waking, when I identified the missing something as the wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness—it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)