<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the act of inhibiting</li><li>the state of being inhibited</li><li>something that inhibits; constraint</li><li>the blocking or holding back of one psychological process by another</li><li>inappropriate conscious or unconscious restraint or suppression of behavior, as sexual behavior, often due to guilt or fear produced by past punishment, or sometimes considered a dispositional trait</li><li>a restraining, arresting, or checking of the action of an organ or cell</li><li>the reduction of a reflex or other activity as the result of an antagonistic stimulation</li><li>a state created at synapses making them less excitable by other sources of stimulation</li><li>a stoppage or decrease in the rate of action of a chemical reaction</li><li>an order, especially from a bishop, suspending a priest or an incumbent from the performance of duties</li></ul>