chilling effect
originally US Law
noun
A discouraging or deterring effect on the behaviour of an individual or group, especially the inhibition of the exercise of a constitutional right, such as freedom of speech, through fear of legal action.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Vanderbilt Law Review.
- critical damping
- criticality
- critical list
- critically
- critical mass
- criticalness
- critical opalescence
- critical path
- critical path analysis
- critical period
- critical point
- critical pressure
- critical state
- critical temperature
- critical theory
- critical thinking
- critical volume
- criticaster
- criticise
- criticism
- criticizable
- criticize
- criticizer
- critique
- critter