hindrance

English

Alternative forms

• hinderance (archaic)
• hindraunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hinderance, hinderaunce, hindraunce, hynderaunce, hynderawnce, hynderawns, hyndrance; equivalent to hinder +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪndɹəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hindrance (plural hindrances)

1. Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.

   High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.

   • 1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:

     The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]

2. The state or act of hindering something

   Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Derived terms

• steric hindrance

Translations

something which hinders

• Albanian: pengesë (sq)
• Aromanian: cheadicã f
• Azerbaijani: əngəl
• Bulgarian: пречка (bg) f (prečka), спънка (bg) f (spǎnka), препятствие (bg) n (prepjatstvie)
• Catalan: obstacle (ca) m, entrebanc (ca) m, nosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 障礙／障碍 (zh) (zhàng'ài), 阻力 (zh) (zǔlì), 阻礙／阻碍 (zh) (zǔ'ài)

• Czech: překážka (cs) f
• Dutch: hindernis (nl) f, obstakel (nl) n
• Esperanto: malhelpo
• Finnish: este (fi), haitta (fi)
• French: entrave (fr) f, obstacle (fr)
• Galician: péga f, traba f, estorbo m
• Georgian: დაბრკოლება (dabrḳoleba), შეფერხება (šeperxeba)
• German: Behinderung (de) f, Hindernis (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (marzeins)
• Greek: κώλυμα (el) n (kólyma), εμπόδιο (el) n (empódio)

  Ancient: ἐγκοπή f (enkopḗ), κώλυμα n (kṓluma)

• Hungarian: akadály (hu)
• Icelandic: hindrun (is) f
• Ido: impedo (io), impedivo (io)
• Indonesian: halangan (id)
• Ingrian: esse
• Irish: éaradh m
• Italian: impaccio (it) m, ostacolo (it) m, impedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 邪魔 (ja) (じゃま, jama), 支障 (ja) (ししょう, shishō), 妨害 (ja) (ぼうがい, bōgai)
• Korean: 방해(妨害) (ko) (banghae)
• Latin: ōbex m or f, obiectus m, impedīmentum n
• Latvian: šķērslis (lv) m
• Malagasy: sakana (mg)
• Old English: hremming f
• Plautdietsch: Hindaniss n
• Polish: przeszkoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: obstáculo (pt) m, obstrução (pt) f, entrave (pt) m, impedimento (pt) m, obice (pt) m, estorvo (pt) m, empecilho (pt) m, barreira (pt) f, freio (pt) m
• Romanian: piedică (ro), impediment (ro) n, obstacol (ro) n
• Russian: поме́ха (ru) f (poméxa), препя́тствие (ru) n (prepjátstvije)
• Scottish Gaelic: amaladh m, bacadh m, èislean m
• Spanish: obstáculo (es), rémora (es), traba (es) f, impedimento (es) m
• Thai: อุปสรรค (th) (ùp-bpà-sàk), ขวากหนาม (th) (kwàak-nǎam), มารผจญ (maan-pà-jon)
• Tocharian B: pkante

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