Definition of Desensitizing

1. Adjective. Making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.

Exact synonyms: Desensitising
Attributes: Predisposition, Sensitivity
Similar to: Numbing
Antonyms: Sensitizing

Definition of Desensitizing

1. Verb. (present participle of desensitize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desensitizing

1. desensitize [v] - See also: desensitize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desensitizing

desensitise
desensitised
desensitiser
desensitisers
desensitises
desensitising
desensitization
desensitization procedure
desensitization technique
desensitizations
desensitize
desensitized
desensitizer
desensitizers
desensitizes
desensitizing (current term)
deserialise
deserialised
deserialises
deserialising
deserialization
deserializations
deserialize
deserialized
deserializer
deserializes
deserializing
deserpidine
desert
desert boot

Literary usage of Desensitizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"... intoxicating, and desensitizing doses of antigen and the period of incubation have been worked out in a series of studies by Weil,1 both in the living ..."

2. Horgan's Half-tone and Photomechanical Processes by Stephen Henry Horgan (1913)
"Their use on a metal or stone surface is called ' desensitizing. ... The following are the desensitizing solutions most frequently used by offset-press ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"Besides filtration, special means have been sought for desensitizing the skin, among them being the production of superficial anaemia by the application of ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"This fact suggested the idea that all or part of the desensitizing action of the water or solution was due to its pressure exerted upon the local nerves or ..."

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