inhibition
/ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/
inhibition noun: the act of inhibiting.
Noun
inhibition (countable and uncountable, plural inhibitions)
- The act of inhibiting.
- 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 230
- Ah, no inhibitions
Make no conditions
Get a little outta line
I ain't gonna act
Politically correct
I only wanna have a good time1997, Shania Twain, Mutt Lange, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”, in Come On Over, performed by Shania Twain
- The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
- A recusal.
inhibition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
inhibition in Hindi
- inhibition
- रुकावट rukāvaṭ
inhibition in Tamil
- தடை, தடையுணர்ச்சி, தடைக்கட்டு, செயல்தடுப்பு, வினைத்தடை, குறைத்தல்
inhibition in Urdu
- inhibition
- رکاوٹ rukāvaṭ
inhibition in Bengali
- সংকোচ, জড়তা, বাধা, দমন
More languagesFewer languages
- inhibition in Malayalam
- ആന്തരനിരോധം, ആന്തരികവിലക്ക്, ഉൾവിലക്ക്, വെെകാരികമായ എതിർപ്പ്
- inhibition in Kannada
- ತಡೆ, ಅಡ್ಡಿ, ವಿರೋಧ, ಪ್ರತಿಬಂಧ
- inhibition in Tagalog
- sansala
- inhibition in Indonesian
- inhibisi, penghambatan
Examples of inhibition in a sentence
- "They lose their inhibitions and forget the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
- Inhibition of osteoclast activation and differentiation is an effective strategy for blocking bone resorption.
- All the selected dihydroxyflavone derivatives showed dose and time dependent inhibition of carrageenan induced paw oedema.
Forms of inhibition
| plural | inhibitions |
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Origin of inhibition
From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio. Morphologically inhibit + -ion.
Words formed from inhibition
- 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
Words that rhyme with inhibition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about inhibition
- What does inhibition mean?
- Inhibition means the act of inhibiting.
- What is inhibition in Hindi?
- Inhibition in Hindi is रुकावट (rukāvaṭ). See Inhibition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inhibition?
- Inhibition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce inhibition?
- Inhibition is pronounced /ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of inhibition?
- The plural of inhibition is inhibitions.
Words near inhibition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inhibition (page history and authors); रुकावट (Hindi) (page history and authors); inhibition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); رکاوٹ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Inhibition (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inhibition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inhibition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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