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adjective

existing under or subject to conditions.

characterized by a predictable or consistent pattern of behavior or thought as a result of having been subjected to certain circumstances or conditions.

Psychology. proceeding from or dependent on a conditioning of the individual; learned; acquired: conditioned behavior patterns. Compare unconditioned ( def 2 ).

made suitable for a given purpose.

air-conditioned.

accustomed; inured.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see condition, -ed²

Related forms

non·con·di·tioned, adjective

self-con·di·tioned, adjective

sem·i·con·di·tioned, adjective

well-con·di·tioned, adjective

Antonyms
1. free, absolute.

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conditioned (kənˈdɪʃənd)

—*adj*
1.	psychol Compare unconditioned of or denoting a response that has been learned
2.	(foll by to) accustomed; inured; prepared by training

well-conditioned

—*adj*
	(of a person or animal's body, hair, etc) in a good or healthy condition

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Word Origin & History

condition

early 14c., from O.Fr. condition, from L. condicionem (nom. condicio) "agreement, situation," from condicere "to speak with, talk together," from com- "together" + dicere "to speak" (see diction). Evolution of meaning through "stipulation, condition," to "situation, mode

of being." The verb meaning "to bring to a desired condition" is from 1850.

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conditioned con·di·tioned (kən-dĭsh'ənd)
adj.

Exhibiting or trained to exhibit a conditioned response.
Physically fit.

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"Now the hand-painted image of a person is costly because the time of a well-trained artist is required to make it. The time spent by the painter is time spent seeing as well as making. Literally thousands of separate perceptions must be consolidated into a single image by the portrait painter. Even where the style is naturalistic and the technique meticulous, the necessary process of amalgamation entails synthesis, generalization, exag geration, and simplification. Hence, much as we admire the painter's craft, we know that it changes optical data. The invention and perfection of photography has taught us to see how painters change what they see. Oddly enough, we are less conscious of the fact that the camera also changes reality. Beyond that, most of us do not realize how much the photographer manipulates what the camera sees because we have been thoroughly conditioned to believe in the photographer's—as opposed to the painter's—mode of representing reality. For practical purposes this means that we regard photographic imagery as truthful while painterly imagery is viewed, at best, as poetic."

-Edmund Burke Feldman

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