Word Study
censorship
CIDE DICTIONARY
censorship, 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." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
censorship
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, wrapsFor further exploring for "censorship" in Webster Dictionary Online