adient

adient
/ad'ee euhnt/, adj. Psychol.
tending to move toward a stimulus. Cf. abient.
[ < L adient- (s. of adiens approaching, prp. of adire), equiv. to ad- AD- + -i- go + -ent- -ENT]

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