Inhibition vs. Prohibition — What's the Difference?

The act of inhibiting or the state of being inhibited.

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The word is also used to refer to a period of time during which such bans are enforced.

Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.

The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.

(Psychology) Conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioral process, desire, or impulse.

A rule or law that forbids something.

(Chemistry) The condition in which or the process by which a reaction is inhibited.

The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

(Biology) The condition in which or the process by which an enzyme, for example, is inhibited.

Prohibition The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States.

The act of inhibiting.

An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

(psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.

A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.

A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.

(legal) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

A recusal.

Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages;

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 enzyme, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

A decree that prohibits something

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.

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

The reduction in rate or stopping of a chemical or biochemical reaction, due to interaction with a chemical agent.

Refusal to approve or assent to

(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);

The quality of being inhibited

(physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part;

The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);