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/kəndˈɪʃənɪŋ/ Listen

noun

conditioning n. A learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response.

verb

Condition v. t.

To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. "Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march."

To contract; to stipulate; to agree. "It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children."

(U. S. Colleges) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

Condition v. i. (past & past part. conditioned; pres. part. conditioning)

To make terms; to stipulate. "Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye."

(Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. "To think of a thing is to condition."

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"Conditioning" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't solve the complaint then another spell of water or dilute juice fasting should be attempted. Most fasters are incapable of persisting until the body reserves have been used up because social conditioning is telling them their emaciated-looking body must be dying when it is actually far from death, but return of true hunger is the critical indicator that must not be ignored. True hunger is not what most people think of ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... have Coru-hin-Irigod and all his gang, under hypno. I'd thought of giving them hypnotic conditioning, and sending them back to Careba with orders to put out some kind of signal the next time Nebu-hin-Abenoz starts out on a buying trip. We could have a couple of men posted in the hills overlooking ...

— Time Crime • H. Beam Piper

... nodding acquaintance with modern psychological science will be aware of the significance of "conditioning", as applied to the human temperament. The late M. Coue "conditioned" people into happiness by making them repeat, over and over again, the phrase "Every day in every way I grow better ...

— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols

... our social institutions is the marriage. It is the paternal source of all other relations. There is no exhibition of the divine goodness in conditioning our race that is more significant and lovely. By it our world is a collection of families in which the tenderest affections are cherished and the worst generally subdued. Here there is a community of interests. Here we experience ...

— The Christian Foundation, March, 1880

... these conditioning causes more definitely to the various cults and movements as we go on to study them, but here at least are the backgrounds against which they must be studied and the lines of testing down which they must be followed. We shall ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... something in the nature of man, or in the exterior conditions of humanity, which invariably leads man to worship, and which determines him, as by the force of an original instinct, or an outward, conditioning necessity, to recognize and bow down before a Superior Power. The full recognition and adequate explanation of the facts of religious history will constitute a ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... something above himself is nothing else than the longing after the perfect type of his nature, the yearning to be free from himself, i.e., from the limits and defects of his individuality. Individuality is the self-conditioning, the self-limitation of the species. Thus man has cognizance of nothing above himself, of nothing beyond the nature of humanity; but to the individual man this nature presents itself under the form of an ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... environment of some kind to establish which of them is there rather than utter irrelevancy. [Footnote: Dr. Pratt, singularly enough, disposes of this primal postulate of all pragmatic epistemology, by saying that the pragmatist 'unconsciously surrenders his whole case by smuggling in the idea of a conditioning environment which determines whether or not the experience can work, and which cannot itself be identified with the experience or any part of it' (pp. 167-168). The 'experience' means here of course the idea, or belief; and ...

— The Meaning of Truth • William James