Inhibition meaning

ĭn'hə-bĭsh'ən, ĭn'ə-
The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited.
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Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
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Conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, desire, or impulse.
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The definition of an inhibition is something that holds you back or restrains you from doing or thinking something.

When you are concerned about your body and don't want to wear a swimsuit or go to the beach, your concern is an example of your inhibition.

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The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.
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The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme, for example, is inhibited.
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An inhibiting or being inhibited.
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Anything that inhibits, esp., a mental or psychological process that restrains or suppresses an action, emotion, or thought.
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The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited.
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Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
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Conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, desire, or impulse.
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The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.
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The blocking or limiting of the activity of an organ, tissue, or cell of the body, caused by the action of a nerve or neuron or by the release of a substance such as a hormone or neurotransmitter.
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(psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
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(chemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.
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The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme, for example, is inhibited.
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The act of inhibiting.
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Origin of inhibition

From Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio

Sentence Examples

  • More important is the law according to which a presentation freed from inhibition and rising anew into consciousness tends to raise the other presentations with which it is combined.

  • In the statics two magnitudes have to be determined: (I) the amount of the suppression or inhibition (Hemmungssumme), and (2) the ratio in which this is shared among the opposing presentations.

  • Neale was strongly high-church in his sympathies, and had to endure a good deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' inhibition by his bishop. In 1855 he founded a nursing sisterhood named St Margaret's.

  • When its remainder after inhibition=O, a presentation is said to be on the threshold of consciousness, for on a small diminution of the inhibition the "effort" will become actual presentation in the same proportion.

  • Lieutenant-governor Beckham, elected in 1900 to fill out the unexpired term of Governor Goebel (assassinated in 1900), was re-elected in 1903, the leading lawyers of the state holding that the constitutional inhibition on successive terms did not apply in such a case.

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