Inhibition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INHIBITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the action of preventing, hindering, or checking
• a feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way
• a restraint on the direct expression of an instinct.
• the slowing or prevention of a process, reaction, or function by a particular substance.
• the action of inhibiting a process.
• an order or writ of prohibition, especially against dealing with a specified piece of land or property.
• The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
• 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.
• 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.
• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
• the quality of being inhibited
• (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of inhibiting; the state of being inhibited; something that forbids, debars, or restricts

Words related to INHIBITION

inhibitions16

Words that contain INHIBITION

inhibitions16 disinhibition19 disinhibitions20

How to use INHIBITION in a sentence

• But no sooner were they finished and set away than Lulu had been attacked by an unconquerable inhibition.
• But with a superior, with a two-legged white-god like Borckman, there was more a demand upon his control, restraint, and inhibition of primitive promptings.
• On the intellectual inhibition of explosive grief and anger.
• It is only in the presence of a catalogue that complete inhibition sets in.
• The effort to construct a satisfactory theory of inhibition has given rise, in recent years, to a good deal of discussion.
• Inhibition cannot, it should seem, have the same sense in both.
• Some careful work has been done in the general field of psychical inhibition.
• Even mental inhibition, therefore, must ultimately refer to the physical conditions of the psychical fact.
• Advantage means here, again, in part at least, if the considerations we have urged are sound, inhibition of those motor processes which would tend to turn attention to a rival.
• The relations of the form of the nerve impulse to the rhythm of vital action, to fatigue and to inhibition are awaiting investigation.
• I hope later to be able to follow out the interesting suggestions of these few experiments in the study of reenforcement and inhibition as caused by simultaneously given stimuli.
• There is one defect common to all these, and that is defective inhibition.
• All human activity is the result of two forces, motor impulses tending to action, and inhibition tending to inertia.
• Inhibition is the function performed by the highest and last-formed brain-cells.
• This faculty of inhibition can be trained by education, or external restraint can be provided by law.
• The force of old temptations vanishes, and what a moment ago was impossible is now not only possible, but easy, because of their inhibition.
• We may call them inhibition by repression or by negation, and inhibition by substitution, respectively.
• It is clear that in general we ought, whenever we can, to employ the method of inhibition by substitution.
• As we look back over the long series of stages leading to our own system of conduct the most striking feature of the history is the increasing power of self-control or inhibition.
• Human nature is not yet known, for we have all lived in a state of mental, moral, emotional or social defense, and the psychology of defense is the psychology of inhibition.
• There the inhibition on the engines was released and the engines began functioning again.
• As a result of this inhibition, all his outdoor playing lacked that complete abandon which is the soul of it.
• The fact of attention or selection must of necessity involve also inhibition or neglect.
• A certain amount of bodily freedom yields better results than rigidity because the latter draws energy from the task in hand for purposes of inhibition.
• It is the governing of impulses, the inhibition of desires that violate the good of the group, and the choice of conduct that forwards its interests.
• The genesis of modesty is rather to be found in the activity in the midst of which it appears, and not in the inhibition of activity like the activity of others.
• Altogether too much has been made of inhibition, anyway, as a sign of mentality, for it is not even characteristic of the human species.
• His persistent indifference, the inhibition that held him in a contemptuous isolation, again possessed him, Howat, a black Penny.
• He raged silently at his impotence, the inhibition that prevented the expression of what might be said for himself.
• The power of prohibiting the slave trade is involved in that of regulating commerce, but this is coupled with an express inhibition to the exercise of it for twenty years.

Similar words containing HIBI without suffix tion and without prefix in

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