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habituation

/həˌbɪt.juˈeɪ.ʃən/

habituation noun: the act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

Noun

habituation (countable and uncountable, plural habituations)

  1. The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
    • Custome can give a Iurisdiction; neither is there any stronger law than it: The continued use then of any known sinne, be it never so small, gives (as Gersons phrase is) a strong habituation ; and, though it be a true rule, that habits do only incline, not compell; yet the inclination that is...1637, Joseph Hall, The Remedy of Prophanenesse, section 13, page 179
    • Long habituation to one kind of life and situation, hath given rise to peculiarities, which to many minds seem unaccountable, yet in reality are perfectly reconcilable to the laws of nature.1794, Joshua Rowlin, “The Natural History of Black-Cattle”, in The Complete Cow-Doctor, or, Farmer’s Companion, page 43
  2. The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
    • Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated...2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

habituation meaning in Urdu and Indonesian

habituation in Urdu

خو گری, خو پذیری

habituation in Indonesian

act of habituating, or accustoming
habituasi

Examples of habituation in a sentence

  • […] it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman’s ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.1851, Herman Melville, chapter 46, in Moby-Dick, page 235:
  • You must fight against the cocoon of habituation which covers everything.1972, Donald Barthelme, “Daumier”, in Sadness, page 179:
  • But in order to make it work we have to 'unadapt' to the habituation that familiarity can bring, […]2017, Michael Alvear, The Bulletproof Author:

Forms of habituation

pluralhabituations

Origin of habituation

From Middle English habituacioun, from Medieval Latin habituātio. By surface analysis, habituate + -ion.

Words formed from habituation

Words that rhyme with habituation

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Questions about habituation

What does habituation mean?
Habituation means the act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
What is habituation in Urdu?
Habituation in Urdu is خو گری, خو پذیری. See Habituation meaning in Urdu.
How do you use habituation in a sentence?
[…] it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman’s ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
What part of speech is habituation?
Habituation is a noun.
How do you pronounce habituation?
Habituation is pronounced /həˌbɪt.juˈeɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of habituation?
The plural of habituation is habituations.

Words near habituation in the dictionary

  1. habituate
  2. habituated
  3. habituates
  4. habituateth
  5. habituating
  6. habituation
  7. habituations
  8. habituative
  9. habituatives
  10. habituator
  11. habituators

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