Definition of Adient

1. Adjective. Characterized by acceptance or approach.

Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Antonyms: Abient
Partainyms: Adience
Derivative terms: Adience

Medical Definition of Adient

1. Having a tendency to move toward the source of a stimulus, as opposed to abient. Origin: L. Adiens, pr. P. Of adeo, to go toward (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adient

adiaphoristic
adiaphorists
adiaphoron
adiaphorous
adiaphory
adiaspiromycosis
adiaspore
adiastole
adiathermancies
adiathermancy
adiathermic
adicities
adicity
adiemorrhysis
adience
adient (current term)
adient behaviour
adieu
adieus
adieux
adimensional
adimolol
adinkra
adinkras
adiopocere
adios
adipamidase
adipamide
adipamides
adipate

Literary usage of Adient

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1. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"... one constantly finds va- b nations from this type. Thus the Mississippi does not rise in a moun- Fig. 24. — Profile of a river showing its adient ..."

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