inhibition

English

Etymology

From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio.

Morphologically inhibit +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/, /ɪnɪˈbɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

inhibition (countable and uncountable, plural inhibitions)

1. The act of inhibiting.
2. (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 230:

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

3. (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
4. (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
5. (Philippines, law) A recusal.

Derived terms

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

Translations

Act of inhibiting

• Bulgarian: спиране (bg) n (spirane), задържане n (zadǎržane)
• Catalan: inhibició (ca) f
• Dutch: remming (nl) f
• Esperanto: inhibicio
• Finnish: estäminen (fi)
• French: inhibition (fr) f
• German: Unterdrückung (de) f
• Greek: αναχαίτιση (el) f (anachaítisi), παρεμπόδιση (el) f (parempódisi), αναστολή (el) f (anastolí)
• Hungarian: gátlás (hu)
• Irish: urchoilleadh m
• Romanian: inhibare (ro) f, inhibiție (ro) f
• Slovak: zábrana f
• Spanish: inhibición (es) f

State of being inhibited

• Catalan: inhibició (ca) f
• Finnish: pidättyneisyys, estyneisyys, estoisuus (fi)
• French: inhibition (fr) f
• German: Hemmung (de) f
• Greek: αναστολή (el) f (anastolí)
• Irish: urchoilleadh m
• Polish: zahamowanie (pl) n
• Romanian: inhibiție (ro) f
• Spanish: inhibición (es) f
• Swedish: hämning (sv) c

Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction

• Bulgarian: инхибиране n (inhibirane)
• Finnish: esto (fi), pidäke (fi), este (fi)
• French: inhibition (fr)
• Greek: αναστολή (el) f (anastolí)
• Indonesian: inhibisi (id), penghambatan (id)
• Italian: inibizione (it)
• Portuguese: inibição (pt)
• Spanish: inhibición (es)
• Tagalog: sansala

See also

• inhibit

Finnish

Noun

inhibition

1. genitive singular of inhibitio

French

Etymology

From Latin inhibitiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ni.bi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

inhibition f (plural inhibitions)

1. inhibition

Related terms

• inhiber

Further reading

• “inhibition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.