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dishabituate

UK/dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/

dishabituate verb: to respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.

Verb

dishabituate (third-person singular simple present dishabituates, present participle dishabituating, simple past and past participle dishabituated)

  1. (intransitive) To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
    • Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996, p. 136).2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI
  2. To reach a state of dishabituation.

dishabituate meaning in Tamil and Bengali

dishabituate in Tamil

படிந்துவிடட வழக்கத்திலிருந்து விடுவி

dishabituate in Bengali

অভ্যাসমুক্তির অবস্থায় পৌঁছানো

Forms of dishabituate

third-person singular presentdishabituates
present participledishabituating
past participledishabituated
pastdishabituated

Origin of dishabituate

From dis- or habituate.

Questions about dishabituate

What does dishabituate mean?
Dishabituate means to respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
What is dishabituate in Tamil?
Dishabituate in Tamil is படிந்துவிடட வழக்கத்திலிருந்து விடுவி. See Dishabituate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dishabituate?
Dishabituate is a verb.
How do you pronounce dishabituate?
Dishabituate is pronounced /dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dishabituate?
The past tense of dishabituate is dishabituated.

Words near dishabituate in the dictionary

  1. dishabilles
  2. dishabit
  3. dishabited
  4. dishabiting
  5. dishabits
  6. dishabituate
  7. dishabituated
  8. dishabituates
  9. dishabituating
  10. dishabituation
  11. dishabituations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dishabituate (page history and authors); dishabituate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dishabituate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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