Какво означава oppressiveness на английски?

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oppressiveness Значение & определение

0 the quality of cruelly or unfairly not allowing people the freedom they should have:
- They had survived the oppressiveness of apartheid.
- They fled the country to escape brutal oppressiveness.
1 a quality that makes people feel worried or uncomfortable:
- My parents came here to escape the oppressiveness of small-town life.
- The overall feeling of this room was of draining oppressiveness and heaviness.
2 the quality in weather of being uncomfortably hot with no wind:
- At last a slight breeze broke the oppressiveness.

The latest cases illustrate the sheer oppressiveness of a law which can be used to punish or even ruin an enemy.
His father told him to read Solzhenitsyn to better understand Communism's oppressiveness.
The playwright evoked the suffocation of individuality and the oppressiveness of dictatorship.
She plays a suburban 1950s housewife stifled by the oppressiveness of her unfulfilling marriage.
We would never paint our home in such depressing colours, but for some reason we accept this oppressiveness in the office, factory or hospital.
There is a brooding oppressiveness to the silence that induces a feeling of unease.
It was a warm, sticky afternoon with sufficient oppressiveness to prompt thoughts of siesta.
A hot night lay in breathless oppressiveness over the dark landscape.