noun
Meaning 1
The act of inhibiting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inhibition
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 5
A recusal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 6
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
- a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
- he ignored his parents' forbiddance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prohibition, forbiddance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: action
noun
Meaning 7
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suppression
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abstinence
noun
Meaning 8
the quality of being inhibited
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: restraint, control
Narrower terms: taboo, tabu
noun
Meaning 9
(physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
History
Etymology
From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio. Morphologically inhibit + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: спиране (spirane) — Act of inhibiting
- Bulgarian: задържане (zadǎržane) — Act of inhibiting
- Catalan: inhibició — Act of inhibiting
- Dutch: remming — Act of inhibiting
- Esperanto: inhibicio — Act of inhibiting
- Finnish: estäminen — Act of inhibiting
- French: inhibition — Act of inhibiting
- German: Unterdrückung — Act of inhibiting
- Greek: αναχαίτιση (anachaítisi) — Act of inhibiting
- Greek: παρεμπόδιση (parempódisi) — Act of inhibiting
- Greek: αναστολή (anastolí) — Act of inhibiting
- Hungarian: gátlás — Act of inhibiting
- Irish: urchoilleadh — Act of inhibiting
- Romanian: inhibare — Act of inhibiting
- Romanian: inhibiție — Act of inhibiting
- Russian: сдерживание (sderživanije) — Act of inhibiting
- Russian: ингибирование (ingibirovanije) — Act of inhibiting
- Russian: торможение (tormoženije) — Act of inhibiting
- Russian: задержка (zaderžka) — Act of inhibiting
- Slovak: zábrana — Act of inhibiting
- Spanish: inhibición — Act of inhibiting
- Catalan: inhibició — State of being inhibited
- Finnish: pidättyneisyys — State of being inhibited
- Finnish: estyneisyys — State of being inhibited
- Finnish: estoisuus — State of being inhibited
- French: inhibition — State of being inhibited
- German: Hemmung — State of being inhibited
- Greek: αναστολή (anastolí) — State of being inhibited
- Irish: urchoilleadh — State of being inhibited
- Polish: zahamowanie — State of being inhibited
- Romanian: inhibiție — State of being inhibited
- Spanish: inhibición — State of being inhibited
- Swedish: hämning — State of being inhibited
- Bulgarian: инхибиране (inhibirane) — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Finnish: esto — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Finnish: pidäke — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Finnish: este — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- French: inhibition — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Greek: αναστολή (anastolí) — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Indonesian: inhibisi — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Indonesian: penghambatan — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Italian: inibizione — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Portuguese: inibição — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Spanish: inhibición — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- Tagalog: sansala — Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction