"unhabituate" meaning in English

See unhabituate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: unhabituates [present, singular, third-person], unhabituating [participle, present], unhabituated [participle, past], unhabituated [past]
Etymology: un- + habituate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|habituate}} un- + habituate Head templates: {{en-verb}} unhabituate (third-person singular simple present unhabituates, present participle unhabituating, simple past and past participle unhabituated)
  1. To reverse or overcome the effects of habituation.
    Sense id: en-unhabituate-en-verb-PSPkdkHO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for unhabituate meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "habituate"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + habituate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + habituate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unhabituates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unhabituate (third-person singular simple present unhabituates, present participle unhabituating, simple past and past participle unhabituated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with un-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Francis Whaley Harper, The powers of the Greek tenses, and other papers, pages 8–9",
          "text": "It is in loneliness and retirement — the solitude which unhabituates men to that sharp definiteness of thought which is needful for its expression to another, in the seasons of mist and gloom, which make external nature no scene for the wanton eye to revel in the contemplation of, in the absence of the beautifully elaborated forms of art, and amid such prospects of nature as engender dim and indefinite feelings in the heart, rather than present distinctly outlined images for the eye and the fancy ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven Douglas Smith, Against the Law, page 141",
          "text": "Almost immediately in their legal education, they are habituated to a certain way of thinking about law, and the role I see myself as having here besides habituating them to think about law in that way is to unhabituate them to thinking about law in those sorts of ways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Stephen R. Davis, The ANC's War against Apartheid",
          "text": "Learning to “see” around these strategies and unhabituate the reader's eye is more about selectively recentering demoted experiences than transparently reproducing foregrounded historiographical “rescue attempts.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reverse or overcome the effects of habituation."
      ],
      "id": "en-unhabituate-en-verb-PSPkdkHO",
      "links": [
        [
          "habituation",
          "habituation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unhabituate"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "habituate"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + habituate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + habituate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unhabituates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhabituated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unhabituate (third-person singular simple present unhabituates, present participle unhabituating, simple past and past participle unhabituated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with un-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Francis Whaley Harper, The powers of the Greek tenses, and other papers, pages 8–9",
          "text": "It is in loneliness and retirement — the solitude which unhabituates men to that sharp definiteness of thought which is needful for its expression to another, in the seasons of mist and gloom, which make external nature no scene for the wanton eye to revel in the contemplation of, in the absence of the beautifully elaborated forms of art, and amid such prospects of nature as engender dim and indefinite feelings in the heart, rather than present distinctly outlined images for the eye and the fancy ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven Douglas Smith, Against the Law, page 141",
          "text": "Almost immediately in their legal education, they are habituated to a certain way of thinking about law, and the role I see myself as having here besides habituating them to think about law in that way is to unhabituate them to thinking about law in those sorts of ways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Stephen R. Davis, The ANC's War against Apartheid",
          "text": "Learning to “see” around these strategies and unhabituate the reader's eye is more about selectively recentering demoted experiences than transparently reproducing foregrounded historiographical “rescue attempts.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reverse or overcome the effects of habituation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "habituation",
          "habituation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unhabituate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.