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uninˈhibited, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not inhibited; unrestrained.
1880W. James Feeling of Effort 24 The motor idea,..uninhibited by remote associations,..discharges by the preappointed mechanism into the right muscles. 1929B. Russell Marriage & Morals x. 111, I think that uninhibited civilised people, whether men or women, are generally polygamous in their instincts. 1949M. Mead Male & Female xii. 263 ‘Why,’ asks the uninhibited American child of 1949, ‘does no one ever go to the bathroom in a book?’ 1956P. H. Johnson Last Resort xlv. 293 He coughed once or twice, blew his nose with an uninhibited trumpeting. 1971S. Hill Strange Meeting ii. 147 Hilliard stood, pitying them their lack of privacy..yet envying them too, their carefully ordered life and clear uninhibited friendships and enmities. 1980A. N. Wilson Healing Art xvi. 194 In the States..he was being, according to his own lights, uninhibited.
Hence uninˈhibitedly adv.
1959Times 10 Jan. 7/6 An informal folk concert in which the audience uninhibitedly join. 1966L. Ó Broin Dublin Castle & 1916 Rising vi. 47 Birrell was accustomed to express himself thus uninhibitedly to Nathan about personalities. 1976New Society 22 Jan. 147/1 If, as a child, things don't go your way and you're miserable, you can make the point by screaming, kicking or flinging your food on the floor. Adolescents and adults cannot show their unhappiness so uninhibitedly.
Add: uninˈhibitedness n., freedom from inhibitions.
1947C. Amory Proper Bostonians iii. 76 John Murray himself set the pattern for the uninhibitedness of his branch of the Family when, a man in his eighties and in the dead of winter, he used to drive..in an open sleigh. 1990Guardian 28 June 39/2 This experience led Wright to value vocalised intonation on the horn, emotional uninhibitedness, and an emphasis on timbre and beat over structural sophistication. |