desensiti'sation
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desensitize or desensitise (diːˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to render insensitive or less sensitive: the patient was desensitized to the allergen; to desensitize photographic film |
| 2. | psychol to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him to it either in reality or in his imagination |
| desensitise or desensitise | |
| —vb | |
| desensiti'zation or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| desensiti'sation or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| de'sensitizer or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| de'sensitiser or desensitise | |
| —n | |
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Desensiti'sation
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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