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inhibition

English

  1. 🔊 (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  2. 🔊 the quality of being inhibited
  3. 🔊 (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”
  4. 🔊 the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
    “they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 inhibición inhibition

Similar words

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