Definition of: censorship

(sen′sər·ship) noun
1. The office, term, power, system, or act of a censor or critic.
2. Psychoanal. The aggregate of selective agencies, both unconscious and deliberate, which are responsible for the suppression of unpleasant memories and thoughts, for the inhibition of impulses and behavior deemed improper, and for the exercise of discipline over the tendencies of the primitive ego or id.