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 Words From

• anti·censor·ship adjective
• pre·censor·ship noun
• pro·censor·ship adjective
• self-censor·ship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of censorship¹

First recorded in 1585–95; censor + -ship

Example Sentences

And no, that is not censorship.

From Salon

And no, that is not censorship.

From Salon

However, consumers and creators of queer content have found ways to thrive online through coded language or other censorship workarounds, according to Wang Shuaishuai, a lecturer at the University of Manchester who studies queer representation in Chinese media.

From Los Angeles Times

“For internet and culture regulators, they don’t know how to moderate this type of content either…. Sometimes they experiment with these censorship rules themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times

But given the ephemeral nature of China’s censorship apparatus, those tags can quickly evolve.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• ban
• blackout
• restriction
• suppression