n.1 Psychol. a restraint on the direct expression of an instinct.
2 colloq. an emotional resistance to a thought, an action, etc. (has inhibitions about singing in public).
3 Law an order forbidding alteration to property rights.
4 a the act of inhibiting. b the process of being inhibited.
Etymology: ME f. OF inhibition or L inhibitio (as INHIBIT)