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Recent Examples of disinhibition
These tests can detect early and subtle changes in cognitive domains including verbal and visual memory, and impairments in language and executive functions including impulse control and disinhibition.
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Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Toxic disinhibition thrives in environments where facial expressions, vocal tone and immediate feedback aren’t required (which is to say, essentially all of modern online dating).
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
And yet even his career is marked by the same Trumpian disinhibition that drives the Republican Party.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
The hallmark of social media is disinhibition born of anonymity.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Behavioral disinhibition—the inability to control impulses, emotions, and attention—is a trait common to ADHD and can affect decision-making.
—Hannah Singleton, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
The chemical may initially cause symptoms like dizziness, weakness, slurred speech and disinhibition.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Medical science has a word for it: disinhibition, to lose control of one’s manners and conduct.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Toxic disinhibition thrives in environments where facial expressions, vocal tone and immediate feedback aren’t required (which is to say, essentially all of modern online dating).
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
And yet even his career is marked by the same Trumpian disinhibition that drives the Republican Party.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
The hallmark of social media is disinhibition born of anonymity.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Behavioral disinhibition—the inability to control impulses, emotions, and attention—is a trait common to ADHD and can affect decision-making.
—Hannah Singleton, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
The chemical may initially cause symptoms like dizziness, weakness, slurred speech and disinhibition.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Medical science has a word for it: disinhibition, to lose control of one’s manners and conduct.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disinhibition
Noun
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Besides the pain, discomfort and fatigue from the surgery and general anesthesia, you are typically left with urinary leakage and incontinence and erectile dysfunction for at least a while.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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No sales tax on some hygiene products HB 594 ends sales tax for diapers, incontinence supplies and period products.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The gratification of placing the last sprinkle and finishing the cake was immense.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Midnight openings for stores to sell hot new album releases at the moment they’re allowed to go on sale are largely an artifact of the ’80s and ’90s, before streaming and downloading became the preferred way to get immediate musical gratification.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Disinhibition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinhibition. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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