Desensitize vs Habituate - What's the difference?
desensitize | habituate |
To cause to become less sensitive or insensitive.
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
* Sir K. Digby
* Tillotson
To settle as an inhabitant.
As verbs the difference between desensitize and habituate
is that desensitize is to cause to become less sensitive or insensitive while habituate is to make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.desensitize
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Alternative forms
* desensitise (British)Verb
(en-verb)- Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.
Derived terms
* (l)habituate
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Verb
(habituat)- our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime
- Men are first corrupted and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices.