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habituator

noun

Etymology

From habituate + -or.

  1. derived from habituātus
  2. inherited from habituate — “physically established or present”
  3. inherited from habituate
  4. suffixed as habituator — “habituate + or”

Definitions

  1. One who habituates, or becomes used to a stimulus.

    • The baby in the top panel looks a lot at the stimulus at first and then rapidly and consistently declines in looking to habituate; this baby exemplifies a rapid habituator who shows a linear, or exponential, decrease in looking.

  2. A device that produces noise, used as an implant to treat tinnitus.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA