Dishabituate
/dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/ verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation. intransitive
"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.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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)."
Etymology
From dis- + habituate.