inhibition vs suppression

inhibition

noun
  • The act of inhibiting. 

  • A recusal. 

  • A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings. 

  • A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally. 

  • The process of stopping or retarding a reaction. 

suppression

noun
  • The act or instance of suppressing. 

  • A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories. 

  • The state of being suppressed. 

  • The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. 

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