inhibition

The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited.

Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.

Conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, desire, or impulse.

The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.

The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme, for example, is inhibited.

The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; prohibition; restraint; embargo.

In English law, a writ to forbid a judge from further proceedings in a cause depending before him, issuing usually from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.

In physiology, the lowering of the action of a nervous mechanism by nervous impulses reaching it from a connected mechanism.

In psychology, the supposed restraint or cancelation of a mental process by other concurrent mental processes.