inhibition

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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.
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.