accustomedness

Habituation; the quality of being used to something.

Noun

  1. Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
    • 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 ? - 1910, Elizabeth...
    • Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness - 1912, R. G. Badger et al., Psychotherapeutics:

Origin

Etymology tree English accustomed Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English accustomedness From accustomed + -ness.