Dictionary Entry
inhibition
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/in-hi-bish-uhn/Word FrequencyUncommon (3.9)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)The act of inhibiting.
In a Sentence
“The essay uses inhibition to make the point more precise.”
Published Usage Examples
“II. ii.346 (217,9) I think, their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation] I fancy this is transposed: Hamlet enquires not about an _inhibition_, but an _innovation_; the answer therefore probably was,”
“But if we abstract from any such implication, and conceive of such force as the term inhibition seems to connote, as restricted to the associated neural or physiological processes, no unwarranted assumptions need be imported by the term into the facts, and the definition may, perhaps, suffice.”
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Origin
From Latin 'inhibere' meaning 'to hold in, restrain'.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “inhibition”
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