abiencen.
/ˈabɪəns/, U.S. /ˈæbiəns/ Psychology.
Withdrawal from a stimulus (cf. abient adj.); avoidance behaviour; the tendency to display this. Opposed to adience n.
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1931 E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process xv. 137 If..an object for which it has a pronounced adience happens to stimulate the senses of a restless animal, this adience will be re-enforced by the (random) annoyer:..thus abience from the mild annoyer and adience to some other stimulus will become one act.
1977 M. L. Hutt Hutt Adaptation of Bender-Gestalt Test (ed. 3) vi. 158 Field dependence..may also be related to perceptual abience.
1978 Laryngoscope 88 1855 Abience was defined as the individual's tendency to avoid or be inhibited from adapting to new experiences that effect his physical functioning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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