disinhibiting

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adjective

That removes or suppresses inhibitions, that disinhibits.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivedisinhibiting (comparative more disinhibiting, superlative most disinhibiting)

comparative more disinhibiting · superlative most disinhibiting

  1. That removes or suppresses inhibitions, that disinhibits.

    This was presumably the moment when he should be made way for, in the solemn but disinhibiting absence of the women […]

    2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
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    2014, Rita Giordano, “New app where user is anonymous stirs concern,” Philly.com, 3 March, 2014, “All digital environments are disinhibiting, but anonymous websites are even more disinhibiting,” said Elizabeth Englander, director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University and a bullying and cyberbullying expert.

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of disinhibit
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