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habituation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun habituation has 2 senses
- habituation(n = noun.state) addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency - being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs); Array is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
- habituation(n = noun.act) Array - a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions; Array is a kind of accommodation, adjustment, fitting
has particulars: drug addiction, white plague
Derived form verb habituate2
Derived form verb habituate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
habituation, n. [Cf. F. habituation.].
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
habituation
a habit, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, adaption, addictedness, addiction, adjustment, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, breaking, breaking-in, case hardening, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, conditioning, crash, craving, dependence, dipsomania, domestication, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, familiarization, hardening, housebreaking, inurement, naturalization, nicotine addiction, orientation, physical dependence, psychological dependence, seasoning, taming, tolerance, training, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptomsROGET THESAURUS
habituation
Conformity
N conformity, conformance, observance, habituation, naturalization, conventionality, agreement, example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation, exemplification, illustration, case in point, object lesson, elucidation, standard, model, pattern, rule, nature, principle, law, order of things, normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition, standing dish, standing order, Procrustean law, law of the Medes and Persians, hard and fast rule, conformable to rule, regular, according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter, en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly, symmetric, conventional, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, in the natural order of things, ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday, in the order of the day, naturalized, typical, normal, nominal, formal, canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean, secundum artem, shipshape, technical, exempIe, illustrative, in point, conformably, by rule, agreeably to, in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with, according to, consistently with, as usual, ad instar, instar omnium, more solito, more-majorum, for the sake of conformity, as a matter of course, of course, pro forma, for form's sake, by the card, invariably, for example, exempli gratia, e, g, inter alia, among other things, for instance, cela va sans dire, ex pede Herculem, noscitur a sociis, ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat, they are happy men whose natures sort with their v, The nail that sticks up hammered down, Tall poppy syndrome, Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.
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