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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restriction, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | bar, barrier, blockage, check, embargo, hangup, interdict, interference, obstacle, prevention, prohibition, reserve, restraint, reticence, self-consciousness, shyness, sublimation, suppression |
| Antonyms: | aid, approval, assistance, freedom, help, liberation |
| Main Entry: | check |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | blow, constraint, control, curb, damper, disappointment, frustration, grunt, harness, holdup, impediment, inhibition, limitation, obstruction, rebuff, rejection, restrainer, reversal, reverse, setback, stoppage, trouble |
| Antonyms: | aid, allowance, assistance, help, indulgence, liberation, permission |
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, diffidence, embarrassment, hang-up, humility, inhibition, modesty, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, timidity |
| Antonyms: | aggression |
| Main Entry: | embarrassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation, shame |
| Synonyms: | awkward situation, awkwardness, bashfulness, bind, boo boo, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face, faux pas, fix, hitch, hot seat, hot water, impecuniosity, indebtedness, indiscretion, inhibition, mess, mistake, mortification, pickle, pinch, plight, poverty, predicament, puzzle, quandary, scrape, self-consciousness, shyness, snag, stew, strait, tangle, timidity, unease, uneasiness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, confidence |
| Main Entry: | hang-up |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preoccupation |
| Synonyms: | block, difficulty, dilemma, disturbance, impasse, inhibition, obsession, predicament, problem, reserve, restraint, thing |
| Main Entry: | impediment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, hindrance |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, bottleneck, burden, catch*, chain, check, clog, cramp, curb, dead weight, defect, delay, deterrent, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, encumbrance, fault, flaw, handicap, hazard, hitch, holdup, hurdle, inhibition, load, manacle, millstone, obstacle, prohibition, red tape, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, road block, rub*, setback, shackle, snag, stoppage, stricture, stumbling block, tie, trammel, wall |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, facilitation, furtherance, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | bar, block, check, circumspection, condition, constraint, control, cramp, curb, definition, drawback, impediment, inhibition, injunction, modification, obstruction, qualification, reservation, restriction, snag, stint, stricture, taboo |
| Notes: | limit marks an end to something; limitation is the extent of one's capacity or a constraint that stops something |
| Antonyms: | advantage, extent, freedom, infinity, range, release |
| Main Entry: | modesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
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