censorship Definition
cen·sor·ship (sen′sər s̸hip′)
noun
- the act, system, or practice of censoring
- the office or term of a Roman censor
- Psychoanalysis the agency by which unpleasant ideas, memories, etc. are kept from entering consciousness, except symbolically as in dreams
censorship Synonyms
censorship
n.
censorship Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- press: He also protested against the renewal of the censorship of the press in 1694.
- Internet: Increasingly deployed in totalitarian countries with excessive censorship of the internet.
Converse of object
- impose: But that evidence clearly does not exist, and therefore you are wrong to want to see censorship imposed on me.
- oppose: Throughout its existence, the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain has opposed censorship in all its guises.
- justify: The ' negative ' concept of media freedom prohibits political censorship only to justify economic censorship.
- remember: But we must do it remembering censorship is a fiction.
Adjective modifier
- preventive: The 1920 War against Soviet Russia brought the introduction of preventive censorship in defense of military secrets.
- blatant: A case of blatant political censorship against those who dared question the council line?
- attempted: For me, such attempted censorship was totally unacceptable.
- strict: Strict censorship was used to make sure that opposing views were neither seen nor heard.
- heavy: Initially, despite heavy censorship, he was able to give his audience some glimmer of the truth.
- political: A case of blatant political censorship against those who dared question the council line?
Modifies a noun
- law: CEO Eric Schmidt also answered critics who gave the company a hard time for agreeing to Chinese censorship laws.
- attempt: You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14 yr old boy.
Noun used with modifier
- wartime: Additionally, wartime press censorship successfully limited public knowledge about the executions.
- Internet: Internet censorship can never be an act of public good.
- self: Things must be far advanced for the Defense Secretary to practice self censorship.
- press: Press censorship was the great issue of the day.
- theater: The unity Theaters movement grew as a direct response to the theater censorship being exercised as directed by the Lord Chamberlain.
- medium: Media censorship has resurfaced where we thought it had been extinguished.
Browse dictionary entries near censorship
- ‹ censorious
- ‹ censor
- ‹ censer
- ‹ cense
- ‹ Cenozoic
- ‹ cenote
- ‹ cenotaph
- ‹ cenospecies
- ‹ cenogenesis
- ‹ cenobite

