单词 | habituation |
释义 | habituationn. 1. The action of rendering or becoming habitual; formation of habit. Esp. the formation of such habits as dependence on drugs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > formation of dependency on drugs habituation1929 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 415 Habituacioun and custom. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 90 The inclinations and dispositions, which are by our own industry and habituations turned now into natural. 1929 Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therapeutics 36 466 ‘Habituation’ we interpret to mean a condition wherein one becomes accustomed to but not seriously dependent upon a drug. 1960 Times 21 Jan. 6/7 The two drugs specifically mentioned in this context are carbromal and bromvaletone. The committee state that cases of habituation arising from the widespread use of these by the public, largely without medical guidance, have been ‘numerically very few, but individually serious’. 1962 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 14 July 93/1 The inherent difficulty in establishing a uniform cut-off point where ‘habituation’ becomes ‘addiction’. 1973 G. G. Nahas Marihuana: Deceptive Weed v. 188 In Egypt 65% of the consumers of hashish declared they were unable to stop although they expressed a wish to discontinue their habituation. 2. The action of habituating or accustoming, or the condition of being habituated (to something); esp. in Psychology, the diminishing of response to a frequently repeated stimulus. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming usea1382 accustominga1475 inurance1571 inurement1592 enuring1606 assuefaction1644 wonting1692 using1702 habituation1816 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming > specifically in psychology habituation1895 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 12 Such is the effect of habituation, that..if passing a river, he hardly puts down his head in effort to drink. 1890 Spectator 4 Oct. Power to endure is most usually the result of habituation to work. 1895 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 82 Gewöhnung, habituation. 1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 120/1 Habituation, the process of becoming adapted to a given stimulus, situation, or general environment. [A pop. and rather loose term.] 1967 S. Arieti Intrapsychic Self iii. 47 Loss of awareness in the phenomenon of habituation is a parsimonious device used constantly by the nervous system. 1973 S. Rose Conscious Brain ix. 194 The habituation process is..both a behavioral and a physiological phenomenon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.c1449 |
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