Words Ending With ESSION
Here's the list of all the 57 Words Ending With ESSION in the English Language.
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| session | 1. a meeting for execution of a group's functions 2. the time during which a school holds classes More Definitions → |
| expression | 1. the feelings expressed on a person's face 2. expression without words More Definitions → |
| depression | 1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment More Definitions → |
| compression | 1. an increase in the density of something 2. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together More Definitions → |
| profession | 1. the body of people in a learned occupation 2. an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) More Definitions → |
| possession | 1. the act of having and controlling property 2. anything owned or possessed More Definitions → |
| impression | 1. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed 2. an outward appearance More Definitions → |
| regression | 1. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely 2. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state More Definitions → |
| accession | 1. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) 2. (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement More Definitions → |
| progression | 1. a series with a definite pattern of advance 2. a movement forward More Definitions → |
| suppression | 1. the failure to develop some part or organ 2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation More Definitions → |
| succession | 1. a following of one thing after another in time 2. a group of people or things arranged or following in order More Definitions → |
| aggression | 1. a disposition to behave aggressively 2. a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack More Definitions → |
| obsession | 1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will 2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone More Definitions → |
| concession | 1. a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business 2. the act of conceding or yielding More Definitions → |
| confession | 1. an admission of misdeeds or faults 2. a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party More Definitions → |
| oppression | 1. the act of subjugating by cruelty 2. the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: More Definitions → |
| recession | 1. the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year 2. a small concavity More Definitions → |
| repression | 1. a state of forcible subjugation 2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious More Definitions → |
| procession | 1. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost 2. the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation More Definitions → |
| decompression | 1. restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display 2. relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) More Definitions → |
| secession | 1. an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s 2. formal separation from an alliance or federation More Definitions → |
| transgression | 1. the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle 2. the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata More Definitions → |
| intercession | 1. a prayer to God on behalf of another person 2. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) More Definitions → |
| repossession | 1. the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default) More Definitions → |
| immunosuppression | 1. lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) More Definitions → |
| precession | 1. the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone 2. the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) More Definitions → |
| digression | 1. a message that departs from the main subject 2. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) More Definitions → |
| cession | 1. the act of ceding More Definitions → |
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