Adience

/ˈeɪdiəns/ noun

Movement or orientation toward a stimulus, particularly used in psychology and biology to describe approach behavior.

From Latin 'ad-' (toward) + '-ience' (movement or condition). Coined in the 20th century by psychologists to be the opposite of 'abience' (moving away).

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