Anti-censorship
the act or practice of .
the office or power of a .
the time during which a censor holds office.
the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
noun
a policy or programme of censoring
the act or system of censoring
(psychoanal) the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind
n.
1590s, “office of a censor,” from censor (n.) + -ship. Meaning “action of censoring” is from 1824.
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