habituation

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One memory decayed much faster than the other -- a form of memory loss necessary for habituation, the researchers noted.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

It just seems as though through habit, habituation, comfort-sleepwalking, or myopia, we are so narrowly focused on this small tranche of cases and still treat the justices as oracles.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2024

In addition, binging on breakup songs can be part of “a habituation process” that reduces the intensity of feelings associated with a romantic split, Sbarra said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Mpungwe and his family are among the last remaining eastern lowland gorillas in DR Congo, and the ultimate aim of habituation is to save them from extinction.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

That in self abnegation and not in revenge the element of greatness consisted must have been brought home to mankind only after long habituation.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm