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unhabituate

unhabituate verb: to reverse or overcome the effects of habituation.

Verb

unhabituate (third-person singular simple present unhabituates, present participle unhabituating, simple past and past participle unhabituated)

  1. To reverse or overcome the effects of habituation.
    • It is in loneliness and retirement — the solitude which unhabituates men to that sharp definiteness of thought which is needful for its expression to another, in the seasons of mist and gloom, which make external nature no scene for the wanton eye to revel in the contemplation of, in the absence of...1841, Francis Whaley Harper, The powers of the Greek tenses, and other papers, pages 8–9
    • Almost immediately in their legal education, they are habituated to a certain way of thinking about law, and the role I see myself as having here besides habituating them to think about law in that way is to unhabituate them to thinking about law in those sorts of ways.1996, Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven Douglas Smith, Against the Law, page 141

Forms of unhabituate

third-person singular presentunhabituates
present participleunhabituating
past participleunhabituated
pastunhabituated

Origin of unhabituate

From un- + habituate.

Questions about unhabituate

What does unhabituate mean?
Unhabituate means to reverse or overcome the effects of habituation.
What part of speech is unhabituate?
Unhabituate is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhabituate?
The past tense of unhabituate is unhabituated.

Words near unhabituate in the dictionary

  1. unhabited
  2. unhabiting
  3. unhabits
  4. unhabitual
  5. unhabitually
  6. unhabituate
  7. unhabituated
  8. unhabituates
  9. unhabituating
  10. unhable
  11. unhackable

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