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dishabituate

verb
/dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/UK

Etymology

From dis- + habituate.

  1. derived from habituātus
  2. inherited from habituate — “physically established or present”
  3. inherited from habituate
  4. prefixed as dishabituate — “dis + habituate”

Definitions

  1. 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).

  2. To reach a state of dishabituation.

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