abientadj.

1931 E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process I. vii. 41 Since there is no satisfactory adjective already in use to characterize these responses which give the organism more of the stimulus, I shall adopt the very apt term adient, which has been kindly suggested by Prof. H. C. Warren. The immediate effect of an adient response..is to give the organism more of the stimulus that elicits the response; and of its opposite, the avoidance or abient response, the immediate effect is to give the organism less of the exciting stimulus.

1951 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 42 114 [Social] attitudes, in this context, are defined as verbal responses to statements implying adient or abient reactive patterns towards the issues..defined.

1977 M. L. Hutt Hutt Adaptation of Bender-Gestalt Test (ed. 3) vi. 158 Abient individuals tend to block out new experiences and profit less from such exposures.

1994 G. Stevens & S. Gardner Separation Anxiety & Dread of Abandonment in Adult Males ii. 15 Further evidence comes from observing the highly generalized adient (toward a stimulus) and abient (away from a stimulus) movements that appear early in the repertoire of infants.