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inhibition

Inhibition is a 10 letter word which starts with the letter I and ends with the letter N for which we found 3 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
(n.) 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 ferment etc.; as the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes etc.
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word inhibition is a 10 letter word that has 4 syllable 's . The syllable division for inhibition is: in-hi-bi-tion


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