Unhabituate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To reverse or overcome the effects of habituation.
"It is in loneliness and retirement — the solitude which unhabituates men to that sharp definiteness of thought which is needful for its expression to another, in the seasons of mist and gloom, which make external nature no scene for the wanton eye to revel in the contemplation of, in the absence of the beautifully elaborated forms of art, and amid such prospects of nature as engender dim and indefinite feelings in the heart, rather than present distinctly outlined images for the eye and the fancy ;"
Example
More examples"It is in loneliness and retirement — the solitude which unhabituates men to that sharp definiteness of thought which is needful for its expression to another, in the seasons of mist and gloom, which make external nature no scene for the wanton eye to revel in the contemplation of, in the absence of the beautifully elaborated forms of art, and amid such prospects of nature as engender dim and indefinite feelings in the heart, rather than present distinctly outlined images for the eye and the fancy ;"
Etymology
From un- + habituate.
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