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habituative

habituative adjective: related to habitual behavior.

Adjective

habituative (comparative more habituative, superlative most habituative)

  1. Related to habitual behavior.
    • It is hypothesized that amobarbitol raises the threshold this particular frequency by suppressing the processing capabilities of the habituative system in the rat.1981, {unattributed}, Physiological Psychology - Volume 9 - Page 19

Noun

habituative (plural habituatives)

  1. verb form expressing habitual action or condition
    • "The habituative and progressive do not co-occur with the perfective. You may choose either the habituative or the progressive or both, but if the progressive is chosen the predicator following must be a verb and not a verbal adjective."1988, Alan R. Thomas, Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference ...

Forms of habituative

Adjective
comparativemore habituative
superlativemost habituative
Noun
pluralhabituatives

Origin of habituative

From habituate + -ive.

Questions about habituative

What does habituative mean?
Habituative means related to habitual behavior.
What part of speech is habituative?
Habituative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near habituative in the dictionary

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

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