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/hˌæbɪtʃuːˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
How To Use habituation In A Sentence
- Evidence for this hypothesis comes from findings on a faster habituation of the electrodermal responses to tones in hypotensives.
- Perhaps it's not surprising to find evidence of taming cats and their habituation with human settlements at such an early date.
- These compounds share with the barbiturates the properties of addiction/habituation, seizure suppression (and withdrawal seizures after prolonged high dosage), and inhibition of spinal interneuronal transmission (muscle relaxation). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- For example, they wrote, "Will someone show long-term habituation to consecutive meals of cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza and mushroom pizza? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Suffering that goes unwitnessed eventually erodes self-witness, until the suffering exists not in a state of repression but in a limbo of habituation where one even stops noticing that one has stopped noticing.
- Almost every species studied, from amoeba to man, exhibits some form of habituation when the stimulus is frequently repeated or constantly applied.
- Acute exposure to repetitive hypoxia has been shown to result in habituation that is expressed as a decreased frequency of arousal in response to the same stimulus.
- * In my paper (2001) I consider "associationism" withing the context of two principle dimensions of thought, that being associative learning (conditioning) and habituation. MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
- This habit is called virtue, and the success of this habituation is also called virtue. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
- If they are exposed to the vibrations every 30 seconds, however, they eventually get used to them and stop responding (it generally takes 10 to 12 stimulations), through a process called habituation - much as people living close to a railway track eventually stop noticing the sound of passing trains. New Scientist - Online News