counteradaptation

noun4

1. •
   adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment
2. •
   The development of tolerance; the adaptation of the body's homeostatic mechanisms to counteract a drug effect.

   • Repeated AOD exposure also can lead to adaptations in the reward circuitry that oppose and neutralize a drug's effects (i.e., counteradaptation). — 1997
3. •
   The evolutionary adaptation of one species to adaptive changes by another.

   • Thus the plant's allomonic adaptation has been exactly reversed by this insect's counteradaptation. — 1980
4. •
   The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality.