censorship

Noun

Meaning

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

censoring ban restriction suppression restraint expurgation security review hush control death aphasia screen regulation quiet silence
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Antonyms

bow-wow babble speech communication exposure noise
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Hypernyms

deletion counterintelligence

Hyponyms

comstockery bowdlerism military censorship national censorship

Phrases with the word

instance of censorship weak cosmic censorship hypothesis strong cosmic censorship hypothesis news censorship press censorship media censorship

Anagrams

sensorchip

Examples

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmore

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. John Mortimer

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. Kenneth Tynan

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. Judy Blume

Close letter words and terms

censorization censorize censorless censorware censour censual