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dishabituating

dishabituating is the present participle and gerund 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 dishabituating

What is dishabituating the present participle and gerund of?
Dishabituating is the present participle and gerund of dishabituate.

Words near dishabituating in the dictionary

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

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