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unhabituating

unhabituating is the present participle and gerund of unhabituate.

Meaning of unhabituate

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

Questions about unhabituating

What is unhabituating the present participle and gerund of?
Unhabituating is the present participle and gerund of unhabituate.

Words near unhabituating in the dictionary

  1. unhabitual
  2. unhabitually
  3. unhabituate
  4. unhabituated
  5. unhabituates
  6. unhabituating
  7. unhable
  8. unhackable
  9. unhacked
  10. unhackled
  11. unhackneyed

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