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Recent Examples of disinhibition
As this new Bride comes to life, her passion, curiosity, and disinhibition captivate Frank.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
Digital environments can facilitate certain aspects of relationship formation due to factors such as digital disinhibition, whereby individuals express themselves more freely in online settings compared to face-to-face contexts.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
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.
—Chicago Tribune, 23 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
Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
Digital environments can facilitate certain aspects of relationship formation due to factors such as digital disinhibition, whereby individuals express themselves more freely in online settings compared to face-to-face contexts.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
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.
—Chicago Tribune, 23 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disinhibition
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Originally developed in the late 1940s by gynecologist Arnold Kegel as a noninvasive treatment for urinary incontinence in women, notes Caponero, Kegels involve repeatedly contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Research has found that doing pelvic floor exercises can help with erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and urinary incontinence, especially after prostate surgery.—
Stacey Colino,
Time,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Happiness and satisfaction are hard, but gratification is easy.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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The best Fourth of July furniture sales are here ahead of schedule this year, which is the kind of immediate gratification anyone who’s been counting down to the long weekend can get behind.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
16 June 2026
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“Disinhibition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinhibition. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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