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adjective
- 1. having been made less sensitive: "desensitized taste buds"
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to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before: Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. be fading away/fast idiom. downtoner. dull. ease. emasculation.
to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before: desensitize someone to something Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. dull. ease. emasculation. enervate.
DESENSITIZE definition: 1. to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than…. Learn more.
1. : to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent. 2. : to make emotionally insensitive or callous. specifically : to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it. desensitization. (ˌ)dē-ˌsen (t)-sə-tə-ˈzā-shən. noun. desensitizer.
1. to render insensitive or less sensitive. the patient was desensitized to the allergen. to desensitize photographic film. 2. psychology. to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him or her to it either in reality or in his or her imagination. Collins English Dictionary.
To desensitize is to make less sensitive, or less easily upset. Some people say that watching scary movies desensitizes kids to violence. A shot of novocaine desensitizes you to the pain of having a cavity drilled by your dentist, and lots of spicy food can desensitize you to more subtle flavors.
verb. to render insensitive or less sensitive. to desensitize photographic film. the patient was desensitized to the allergen. psychol to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him to it either in reality or in his imagination.
desensitize meaning, definition, what is desensitize: to make someone react less strongly to s...: Learn more.
verb. /diːˈsensətaɪz/ ( British English also desensitise) Verb Forms. [usually passive] to make somebody/something less aware of something as a problem by making them become used to it. be/become desensitized (to something) People are increasingly becoming desensitized to violence on television.
To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: "This movie in effect may resensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence" (Steven Spielberg).
