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Oppressiveness

Oppressive \Op*press"ive\, a. [Cf. F. oppressif.]

  1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.

  3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; creating a sense of heavy burden; as, oppressive grief or woe; oppressive heat or humidity; an oppressive workload.

    To ease the soul of one oppressive weight.
    --Pope. [1913 Webster] -- Op*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Op*press"ive*ness, n.

Wiktionary
oppressiveness

n. The characteristic of being oppressive.

WordNet
oppressiveness
  1. n. a feeling of being oppressed [syn: oppression]

  2. unwelcome burdensome difficulty [syn: burdensomeness, onerousness]

Usage examples of "oppressiveness".

It was pleasant to be apart from him, his experience, his weightiness, the innocent oppressiveness of his maturity, his dominance.

The smoke-darkened timbers seemed to breathe out a miasma of oppressiveness.