dishabituate

/dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/

Etymology

From dis- + habituate.

dishabituate means To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

verb

To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.“Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996, p. 136).”
To reach a state of dishabituation.