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noun
According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
The word was borrowed from the word scotoma (blind spot) by psychiatrists in the 1920s. By surface analysis, scot- + -omize + -ate + -ion.
