'Censorship' definitions:
Definition of 'censorship'
(from WordNet)
noun
Counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy [syn: censoring, censorship, security review]
noun
Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances [syn: censoring, censorship]
Definition of 'Censorship'
From: GCIDE
- Censorship \Cen"sor*ship\, n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'censorship'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviation,
- abridgment,
- bamboo curtain,
- barrier of secrecy,
- blackout,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- blue-penciling,
- bowdlerization,
- cancellation,
- censoring,
- crackdown,
- crushing,
- curtain,
- deletion,
- editing,
- erasure,
- expurgation,
- extinguishment,
- hush-up,
- inhibition,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- oath of secrecy,
- official secrecy,
- omission,
- pall,
- psychological block,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- squashing,
- squelching,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- striking,
- subdual,
- suffocating,
- suppression,
- throttling,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- wraps