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Loss of a conditioned reflex (as by the action of interfering stimuli).

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Usage examples (33)
  • Like senior citizens suffering from dementia, Web users often fall prey to "disinhibition" — the lack of a filter for their most brutal thoughts.
  • The psychiatric term for it would be "disinhibition".
  • Instead she kept quiet about a tumour which had the potential to cause behavioural disturbances such as disinhibition and poor judgment.
  • "disinhibition" caused by the ­disease's progress.
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