desensitization

The desensitization is the other thing, where they see it over and over, after a while, it stops having a real emotional impact.

CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2003 2003

More serious cases will receive what Burghardt calls "desensitization counter-conditioning," which entails exposing the dog at a safe distance to a sight or sound that might trigger a reaction - a gunshot, a loud bang or a vehicle, for instance.

The Seattle Times 2011

The fact that he finds it necessary to take refuge to foaming rhetoric is based on something that biologists call desensitization, i.e. a drug loosing its effect due to overuse, so that in a vicious cycle higher and higer doses are needed to elicit less and less of an effect.

MoJo Blogs and Articles 2009

Hence the need for the new kidney match-making called desensitization aimed at patients like Preloh who otherwise might not get a chance at a new organ.

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

The process that is then used is called desensitization and that is basically replacing a bad experience or habit with a good one.

Quit Smoking Tobacco 2008

(The fancy word for this is "desensitization", but better to avoid it.)

You Are In Control--Scary, Right? 2010

(The fancy word for this is "desensitization", but better to avoid it.)

You Are In Control--Scary, Right? 2010

Sex educators (before the abstinence only people made them stop talking about sex at all, which is a whole other story), use a technique called "desensitization" to help people get to where they can talk sensibly about previously verboten facts such as the proper names for body parts.

Gloria Feldt: Memo About Hillary Clinton: Guys, Get Over It 2008

COOPER LAWRENCE, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Let ` s be clear what the word "desensitization" means in this context.

CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2007 2007

You know, this kind of desensitization to violence is definitely not something unique to this country.

CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006 2006