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English
Etymology
From dis- + habituate.
Pronunciation
Verb
dishabituate (third-person singular simple present dishabituates, present participle dishabituating, simple past and past participle dishabituated)
- (intransitive) To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI: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).
- To reach a state of dishabituation.