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censoring

censoring

3 6.9
Stopping parts of speech or writing that people find offensive
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛn.sər.ɪŋ/
translation icon : censura
  • By 1930, the burden of weekly film censoring had rendered this improvised system impractical.
  • self-censoring
  • censoring event
  • censoring point

And with employees, there's a lot of self censoring and more reservation being reserved.

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Examples

  • Subsequently, censorship board seats lost some desirability, and the censoring became even more amateurish and haphazard.

    Academic text (2005)
  • 100 controversies instead focused on the people who did the censoring, how they did it, and at what commercial expense.

    Academic text (2005)
  • And you tell them that my buddy Gary and his family left Russia because censoring is bad.

  • There are laws for a reason, so we need to understand that censoring political opinion, absolutely unacceptable.

  • The same arguments hold for the censoring problems in the data.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The thing that bothers me most, though, isn't the censoring but the contents of these letters.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Authority was the demos of Athens, the Inquisition, the churches rejecting Darwinism, and the censoring prudes who attacked Freud.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The government's censoring of news stories has raised concerns about free speech.

  • Censoring censoring content that is deemed offensive can limit the public's access to important information.

  • Many people criticize the censoring of art, arguing that it stifles creativity and expression.

Synonyms

censorship
vscensoring
119 4.8

A system that removes parts of books, films or news that people find harmful

is the single act of removing or suppressing specific objectionable information
suppression
vscensoring
7 7.2

Stopping a book or article from being published

is broader covering removal or blocking of content in many ways
bowdlerization
vscensoring
  • Literature
1 9.9

Removing or changing parts of a text that people find offensive to make it acceptable for more readers

is the general act of removing or suppressing objectionable information
obscuration
vscensoring
1 8.2

Something that stops you from seeing or understanding

involves removing or suppressing content because it is objectionable or sensitive
Bowdlerism
vscensoring
  • Literature
9.9

Removing parts of a book or film that people find offensive

covers removal for any objectionable or sensitive reason
Comstockery
vscensoring
  • US
9.9

Banning books and art because people think they are immoral or offensive

is broader and applies to any objectionable or sensitive content

How Restrictive

banning
8 3.9
suppression
7 7.2
censoring
3 6.9
editing
126 2.7

Surface Forms

censoring singular
censorings plural

Morphology

censoring = censor (transparent) = censor + ing

The noun sense is a gerund derived from the verb 'censor' with the productive suffix '-ing', so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base.

Etymology

Censoring comes from the Latin verb censere, meaning 'to judge', and from the Roman official called the censor, who checked people's behavior and public writing. So censoring today means removing or hiding parts that are judged wrong, harmful, or sensitive.