Habituation

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  • noun. The process of habituating or the state of being habituated.
  • noun. Physiological tolerance to a drug resulting from repeated use.
  • noun. The decline in responsiveness to a stimulus due to repeated exposure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of habituating, or the state of being habituated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
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  • noun. a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
  • noun. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
    • Word Usage
    "For example, they wrote, "Will someone show long-term habituation to consecutive meals of cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza and mushroom pizza?""
    cross-reference
    error of habituation  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    accommodation  adjustment  fitting  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abolishment  acclimatisation  alighting  ascertaining  cumulation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    a habit  acclimation  acclimatization  accommodation  accustoming  
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