Desensitization

Word DESENSITIZATION
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Hyphenation desensitization
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The word "desensitization" in example sentences

The desensitization is the other thing, where they see it over and over, after a while, it stops having a real emotional impact. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The process that is then used is called desensitization and that is basically replacing a bad experience or habit with a good one. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(The fancy word for this is "desensitization", but better to avoid it.) ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

COOPER LAWRENCE, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Let ` s be clear what the word "desensitization" means in this context. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You know, this kind of desensitization to violence is definitely not something unique to this country. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The main treatment for hoplophobia is the psychological process known as "desensitization," the same methodology used for people with fear of spiders, open spaces or heights. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The term "desensitization" really is just tolerance to dark ecstasy and one needs more and more stimuli to fulfill their appetite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most showed signs of desensitization, meaning that they could eat much higher doses of the peanut protein before having an allergic reaction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"desensitization" and more of an eye-opening time in which Vermonters saw first hand ❋ Unknown (2009)

And actually, your first point about VT's reaction to CU's is pretty much addressed in the line about the nine years of civil unions being "less of a 'desensitization' and more of an eye-opening time in which Vermonters saw first hand (a) how benign gay partner recognition truly is, and (b) how unfair it is to stop short of anything but FULL equality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once the desensitization had kicked in I began to find that tickling my feet, after a long day of walking and standing in hot shoes, actually helped cool them down, made them stop hurting and decreased the swelling significantly. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

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