Meaning & use
Adience
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In psychology, the tendency of an organism to approach, turn toward, or seek out a stimulus.
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The infant's adience toward the mother's voice was evident from the first days of life.
Researchers measured adience and abience in response to different scents to study approach-avoidance behavior.
A note on using this word
Adience is paired in psychological literature with its opposite, 'abience,' the tendency to withdraw from a stimulus.
Words with an opposite meaning
abience
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