Inhibition vs. Prohibition

Inhibitionnoun

The act of inhibiting.

Inhibitionnoun

(psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.

Inhibitionnoun

The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.

Inhibitionnoun

(legal) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.

Inhibitionnoun

A recusal.

Inhibitionnoun

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

Inhibitionnoun

A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or enzyme, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

Inhibitionnoun

A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.

Inhibitionnoun

The reduction in rate or stopping of a chemical or biochemical reaction, due to interaction with a chemical agent.

Inhibitionnoun

(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

Inhibitionnoun

the quality of being inhibited

Inhibitionnoun

(physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part;

Inhibitionnoun

the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);

Prohibitionnoun

An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

Prohibitionnoun

A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

Prohibitionnoun

A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.

Prohibitionnoun

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

Prohibitionnoun

Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Prohibitionnoun

a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages;

Prohibitionnoun

a decree that prohibits something

Prohibitionnoun

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Prohibitionnoun

refusal to approve or assent to

Prohibitionnoun

the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);

Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The word is also used to refer to a period of time during which such bans are enforced.