'habituate' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to mean the process of becoming accustomed to something or someone, such as a new environment. For example, "The new student habituated quickly to the school's system of learning."
In private, Schooler began referring to the problem as "cosmic habituation," by analogy to the decrease in response that occurs when individuals habituate to particular stimuli.
Even so, black bears habituate quickly to handouts given by tourists, and this lack of fear of humans often leads to conflicts.
Coyotes generally fear and avoid humans, but they habituate well to human presence in parks and cities and are found with regularity in urban settings such as Chicago and Los Angeles.
With a persistent compound the insects would be in a continual state of alarm or would habituate to the odour, thus reducing its value as an alarm pheromone.
For example, a tendency to respond to an attractive food odour will decline if the food is out of reach, and many animals habituate to flavours that are mildly distasteful on first encounter.
Every hour we hear tweeters remonstrating with the very site they habituate.
Millican says: "Philosophy habituates students in asking fundamental questions about things that most of us take for granted, and seeking answers in novel ways.
They worry that their party's leaders are becoming habituated to opposition.
With no independent central bank to protect the "currency", the value of frequent-flyer miles has already diminished: over the past decade most airlines have increased the number of miles needed for a free flight.Just as passengers are addicted to earning miles, so airlines have become habituated to the profits from selling miles to partner firms.
The fear is that, habituated to natural disaster in Bangladesh, international attention could soon shift elsewhere.In this section Fifth from the right is the party-pooper The cruel sea The real deal?
Far from habituating employers to investing in training, it excludes them from the commissioning process.Finally, England's education system provides no clear vocational track.
