prevention
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
Example
“a fire prevention campaign”
Other meanings
Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
precaution; forethought.
Synonyms
- bar
Related words
- photoprevention
- prevenception
- preventional
- preventionist
- angioprevention
- antiprevention
- chemoprevention
- immunoprevention
- loss prevention
- nonprevention
- preventionism
- prevention is better than cure
Word history
From Medieval Latin "prēventiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “prevention” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.