accustomedness

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English

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Etymology

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From accustomed +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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accustomedness (uncountable)

  1. Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
    • 1910, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges:
      if we caught the mystery of life and knew the origin of things , should we not have the same feeling of satiety from the accustomedness of knowledge as we have now from the accustomedness of emotion ?
    • 1912, R. G. Badger et al., Psychotherapeutics:
      Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness