censorship

[sen-ser-ship]

noun

1. the act or practice of censoring.

2. the office or power of a censor.

3. the time during which a censor holds office.

4. the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.

censorship

/ ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp /

noun

1. a policy or programme of censoring

2. the act or system of censoring

3. psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind

Other Word Forms

• anticensorship adjective
• precensorship noun
• procensorship adjective
• self-censorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of censorship¹

First recorded in 1585–95; censor + -ship

Example Sentences

As TikTok grew, concerns about censorship, mental health harms, data privacy and national security escalated.

From Los Angeles Times

He introduced Grok as a safe and truthful alternative to what he accused competitors of building, “woke” chatbots prone to censorship.

From Los Angeles Times

He also expressed concerns as well as a little "weariness", when asked, about censorship, specifically with reference to comedy writer Graham Linehan's recent arrest for comments made online about trans people.

From BBC

The model mirrors China's WeChat - central to daily life but also a tool of censorship and surveillance.

From BBC

It said in a statement that the interruption was in rejection to "Zionist funding, censorship and complicity in our cultural institutions" over the Gaza war, including the MSO and the BBC.

From BBC

Related Words

• ban 
• blackout 
• restriction 
• suppression