dishabituate

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ habituate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/

Verb

dishabituate (third-person singular simple present dishabituates, present participle dishabituating, simple past and past participle dishabituated)

1. (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).

2. To reach a state of dishabituation.