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Definition of inhibition : 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

Synonyms:

stifling, proscription, limit, cramp, circumscription, crushing, interdiction, banning, quelling, allow, limited, check, taboo, forbidding, trammel, curb, limitation, prohibition era

constraint, tangle, brake, entanglement, bung, impasse, deterrent, drag, jam, drawback, stay, burden, interruption, stop, stoppage, clog, snag, blockade, impedance, block, crimp, dam, snarl, plug, handicap, delay, encumbrance, entrapment, frustration, bottleneck, bafflement, obstacle, choke, damper, catch, barrier, hurdle, complication, mire, restriction, congestion, disadvantage, constipation, blockage

aversion, prevention, derailment, dissuasion, discouragement, disheartenment, restraint, diversion, disinclination, intimidation, admonishment, banishment, deflection

contradiction, suppression, adversary, conflict, repression, fight, impediment, counterattack, opposition, disagreement, protest, confrontation, friction, counteraction, antagonism, interference, hindrance, obstinacy, obstruction, rebuff, objection, defiance, repulsion, challenge, dispute, resistance

disallowance, refusal, ban, disapproval, forbiddance, curtailment, rejection, denial, prohibition, injunction, preclusion, bar

hang-up, leash, bondage, collar, detainment, bridle, detention, control, confinement, shackle, constriction, stricture, tether, reserve

Usage examples:

• Owing to this paralysis of fear, this ghastly inhibition of muscular or nervous action, I have gone through things even worse than that South- African business. - "The Red Planet", William J. Locke.
• The counties in solid array addressed protests to the Government against the illegal act and in behalf of Kossuth, who continued to publish the paper in spite of the inhibition. - "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17", Charles Francis Horne.
• In subsequent cases the court said that the statute should be given a reasonable construction and refused to include within its inhibition, certain contractual restraints of trade which it denominated as incidental or as indirect. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.