censorship

American  

[sen-ser-ship] / ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪp /

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.

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censorship British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of censorship

First recorded in 1585–95; censor + -ship

Example Sentences

Despite heavy censorship, the internet has remained an important, if not the only, space for such conversations.

From BBC

Lee has described the relaxation of Cold War-era censorship as an "opportunity to understand the reality of North Korea accurately".

From Barron's

They also argue the ban amounts to unnecessary censorship in a vibrant democracy that is one of the most wired and educated countries in the world.

From Barron's

EU officials have said repeatedly that the law isn’t about censorship and that the bloc has the right to regulate economic activity within its borders.

From The Wall Street Journal

But when American researchers downloaded and ran Chinese models on their own computers in the U.S., much of the censorship vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• ban
• blackout
• restriction
• suppression