Censor vs Censorship - What's the difference?
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(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
One who censures or condemns
(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
(acronym ) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
To remove objectionable content
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
* 1899 , , The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1
Censorship is a related term of censor.
Censor is a related term of censorship.
As nouns the difference between censor and censorship
is that censor is (history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality while censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.As a verb censor
is to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.censor
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Alternative forms
* censour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Ancient censors were part of the ''cursus honorum , a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor''' for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy ' censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
Synonyms
* censurerVerb
(en verb)- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- ''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance
Synonyms
* bowdlerizeSee also
* decensor * expurgateExternal links
* *Anagrams
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(wikipedia censorship)Noun
- such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."
- I think that censorship is an admission that you have lost an argument