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Definition of Adient
1. Adjective. Characterized by acceptance or approach.
Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Antonyms: Abient
Partainyms: Adience
Derivative terms: Adience
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
Literary usage of Adient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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