Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
desensitization .
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- noun The act or process of
desensitising , ofdulling orreducing sensation .
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- noun the process of reducing sensitivity
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Examples
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If hay fever is interfering with your life, even though you are on medication, ask your GP about desensitisation.
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More shock than substance, I'm afraid (and perhaps it says too much about my own desensitisation that I didn't find any of that shock content to be all that shocking).
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For the 10 to 15% of people who have significant symptoms despite medication, desensitisation treatment is often useful.
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We couldn't possibly include the three-week desensitisation period, when they burn the girls in particular places.
Has the UN learned lessons of Bosnian sex slavery revealed in Rachel Weisz film? 2012
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Cognitive behavioural therapy is good for Anxiety attacks - through desensitisation exercises. maarmie on March 01, 2009
The Patriarchy Got In The Way Of A Good Time At The Psychiatrist's Office 2009
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In fact our experience is so frequently overwhelmed by stimulus that we need to cultivate a degree of “desensitisation” simply to survive in the modern world: this is the ‘blasé attitude’ that Georg Simmel thought marked the mental life of the modern metropolis.
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The company is currently developing other therapeutic applications for its patch, including vaccinations, cutaneous drug administration, and the diagnosis of and desensitisation to other allergies (wheat, dust mites, etc.).
Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Carper 2007
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In fact our experience is so frequently overwhelmed by stimulus that we need to cultivate a degree of “desensitisation” simply to survive in the modern world: this is the ‘blasé attitude’ that Georg Simmel thought marked the mental life of the modern metropolis.
Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009
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The company is currently developing other therapeutic applications for its patch, including vaccinations, cutaneous drug administration, and the diagnosis of and desensitisation to other allergies (wheat, dust mites, etc.).
Skin Patch Dairy Allergy Test Announced Steve Carper 2007
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It is easy to say something is harmless and then it leads you to say, oh, this isn't so bad either, and so on and so on. desensitisation.
Kids These Days Jen 2009
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