Definition of "desensitization" [desensitization]

• The act or process of desensitizing, of dulling or reducing sensation. (noun)

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• "The desensitization is the other thing, where they see it over and over, after a while, it stops having a real emotional impact."
• "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."
• "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."