inhibition

inhibition is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
2. noun. A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
3. noun. A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
4. noun. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

   "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"

   "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"

   Synonyms: forbiddance, prohibition

5. noun. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

   Synonyms: suppression

6. noun. the quality of being inhibited
7. noun. (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part

   "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"

Synonyms

forbiddance, prohibition, suppression

Common word forms

inhibitions

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