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How to pronounce oppressiveness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms oppression
Type of depression
Has types weight
Derivation oppressive
Type Words
Synonyms burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness
Type of difficultness, difficulty
Derivation oppressive

Examples of oppressiveness

oppressiveness
There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
From the sacbee.com
For example, see the paranoia and oppressiveness of the Soviet government.
From the economist.com
His work captures the monotony and oppressiveness of the place.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's the only place right now where we have a chance for human survival over the oppressiveness of government.
From the techcrunch.com
Today that e-mail message rarely lands in in-boxes, and when it's cited, it's mostly to show the oppressiveness of spam.
From the nytimes.com
The stage and the props use gothic arches and harsh angular designs to attempt to invoke a feeling of oppressiveness.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Contrarily for Adorno, art is supposed to be subjective, challenging, and oriented against the oppressiveness of the power structure.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They were a part of the national movement to reject the oppressiveness, and particularly the censorship, of the communist regime.
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The oppressiveness of his taxes, increased to pay his armies and finance his marriage, resulted in a Bulgarian uprising late in 1185.
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More examples
  • Oppression: a feeling of being oppressed
  • Burdensomeness: unwelcome burdensome difficulty