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dishabituated

dishabituated is the simple past and past participle of dishabituate.

Meaning of dishabituate

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.

Questions about dishabituated

What is dishabituated the simple past and past participle of?
Dishabituated is the simple past and past participle of dishabituate.

Words near dishabituated in the dictionary

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

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