Synonyms: suppression, inhibition
Definition: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Similar words: abstinence
Definition: act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression, crushing
Definition: forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Usage: the suppression of heresy; the quelling of the rebellion; the stifling of all dissent
Similar words: prevention, bar
Definition: the act of preventing
Usage: there was no bar against leaving; money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza
Synonyms: curtailment, suppression
Definition: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
Usage: a suppression of the newspaper
Similar words: restraint
Definition: the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
Usage: the unlawful restraint of trade
Synonyms: suppression
Definition: the failure to develop some part or organ
Similar words: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children