Both Uses of
inhibit
in
Childhood's End
- I am well aware of the fact that we have also inhibited, by the contrast between our civilizations, all other forms of creative achievement as well.
Chpt 20 *inhibited = limited or restricted
- From the Overlord's description, Jan built up a picture of a cyclopean beast living among the asteroidal rubble of some distant sun, its growth uninhibited by gravity, depending for food and life upon the range and resolving power of its single eye.†
Chpt 22 *uninhibited = acting naturally without being overly self-consciousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninhibited means not and reverses the meaning of inhibited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhibit as in: inhibited the growth of...) to limit the activity of someone or something
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(2)
(inhibited as in: she is shy and inhibited) unable to act naturally due to being overly self-conscious