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inhibition

noun
/ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio. Morphologically inhibit + -ion.

  1. derived from inhibitio
  2. derived from inibicion
  3. inherited from inhibicioun

Definitions

  1. The act of inhibiting.

  2. A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.

    • Often the guests, affected by the wine drinking, released all inhibitions and made erotic overtures, particularly to the slave cup-bearers.

  3. The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.

    2. A recusal.

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Derived

angioinhibition, autoinhibition, baroinhibition, cardioinhibition, chemoinhibition, coinhibition, contact inhibition, counterinhibition, cross-inhibition, disinhibition, hyperinhibition, immunoinhibition, mitoinhibition, mixed inhibition, noninhibition, osteoinhibition, overinhibition, phosphoinhibition, photoinhibition, response inhibition, retroinhibition, sympathoinhibition, thermoinhibition, tissue thromboplastin inhibition time, topoinhibition, transinhibition, transmarginal inhibition, uninhibition

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA