"self-censorship" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: self-censorships [plural]
Etymology: From self- + censorship. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|censorship}} self- + censorship Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} self-censorship (usually uncountable, plural self-censorships)
  1. The act of censoring one's own work or what one says without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority, often for fear of sanctions. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (act of censoring one's own work): 自我審查 (Chinese Mandarin), 自我审查 (zìwǒ shěnchá) (Chinese Mandarin), autocenzura [feminine] (Czech), itsesensuuri (Finnish), auto-censure [feminine] (French), Selbstzensur [feminine] (German), 自己検閲 (jiko ken'etsu) (Japanese), 自主規制 (jishu kisei) (Japanese), autocenzura [feminine] (Polish), autocenzúra [feminine] (Slovak), autocensura [feminine] (Spanish), självcensur [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "act of censoring one's own work",
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