- the act of inhibiting.
- the state of being inhibited.
- something that inhibits; constraint.
- Psychology.
- the blocking or holding back of one psychological process by another.
- inappropriate conscious or unconscious restraint or suppression of behavior, as sexual behavior, often due to guilt or fear produced by past punishment, or sometimes considered a dispositional trait.
- Physiology.
- a restraining, arresting, or checking of the action of an organ or cell.
- the reduction of a reflex or other activity as the result of an antagonistic stimulation.
- a state created at synapses making them less excitable by other sources of stimulation.
- a stoppage or decrease in the rate of action of a chemical reaction.
- an order, especially from a bishop, suspending a priest or an incumbent from the performance of duties.
- the act of inhibiting or the condition of being inhibited
- psychol
- a mental state or condition in which the varieties of expression and behaviour of an individual become restricted
- the weakening of a learned response usually as a result of extinction or because of the presence of a distracting stimulus
- (in psychoanalytical theory) the unconscious restraining of an impulse
- the process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
- the suppression of the function or action of an organ or part, as by stimulation of its nerve supply
- an episcopal order suspending an incumbent
