Main entry: prohibition, forbiddance, inhibition
Definition: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
Usage: they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter; a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages; he ignored his parents' forbiddance
Main entry: suppression, inhibition
Definition: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Main entry: inhibition
Definition: the quality of being inhibited
Main entry: inhibition
Definition: (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
Usage: the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve