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Inhibition vs Incitation - What's the difference?

inhibition | incitation |

As nouns the difference between inhibition and incitation

is that inhibition is the act of inhibiting while incitation is the act of inciting or moving to action.

inhibition

English

(wikipedia inhibition)

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of inhibiting.
  • (psychology) a personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
  • (chemistry) the process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.

    • See also

    * inhibit ----

    incitation

    English

    (wikipedia incitation)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of inciting or moving to action.
  • (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
  • *, II.29:
  • *:A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation .