accustomedness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From accustomed + -ness.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]accustomedness (uncountable)
- 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