disinhibitionn.
/dɪsɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/ (See quot. 1927.)
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > removal of hindrance
disinhibition1927
1927 G. V. Anrep tr. I. P. Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes iv. 67 We are now afforded some justification for regarding disinhibition, as we did a short while ago, as being the ‘inhibition of an inhibition’.
1937 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 29 Such disinhibition, as Pavlov calls it, has been found associated with the various types of cessation or diminution of activity we have studied.
1964 J. Z. Young Model of Brain xvii. 284 Such a mechanism recalls the suggestion that enzymes exist in an inhibited form and that demand brings them into action by disinhibition.
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