to habituate
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7.5
- verb
- /həˈbɪtʃuˌeɪt/
:
habituar
- People who use caffeine daily often habituate to its stimulating effects, requiring more to feel energized.
- become habituated
Examples
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I think our population is becoming habituated to conditions that would have been thought ghastly a generation ago.
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The thought that one's patience might one day be rewarded is replaced by the realization that one has been habituated to indolence.
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I think that a lot of people's alcohol use is habituated rather than chosen.
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When teachers repeatedly use the same teaching methods, children become habituated to them.
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Another is that judges have become so habituated to following the guidelines that they find it hard to break the habit.
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We humans become habituated, perhaps addicted, to the familiar, whether it is a daily task or a policy.
Academic text (1999) -
I also suspect that even young people are still so habituated to paged text that there's a bias in that direction.
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There's always hope that a rising economy will float them into the black, but more importantly, they may have become habituated to risk-taking and to lying.
Academic text (2009) -
In an earlier study, Kumaraguru et al. found that simply emailing anti-phishing material was ineffective because people were habituated to receiving such warnings and thought they already knew how to protect themselves.
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Children can habituate to noise if exposed to it consistently, eventually ignoring it during play.
Antonyms
How Habitual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Habituate shares the root habit and Latin habitus meaning 'condition', so to habituate yourself to a substance is to make its use a regular 'habit' you have, which is why it can become hard to stop.