Antonyms for stimulus
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : stim-yuh-luhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɪm yə ləs |
Definition of stimulus
Origin :- plural stimuli, 1680s, originally as a medical term, "something that goads a lazy organ" (often the male member), from Modern Latin stimulus "goad" (see stimulation). General sense is from 1791. Psychological sense is first recorded 1894.
- noun provocation
- She would want his companionship and the stimulus of his mind, in hers.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Her distress was a new gratification and stimulus to her betrayer.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- The stimulus to variation may have come from the mother as well as the father.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- Isolation from the mother country was a stimulus to the inventive imagination.
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- Expose him to the stimulus of necessity in an unsettled country.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- But may not the stimulus which love has given to fancy be some day exhausted?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- It has never had any stimulus to grow, or any field in which to blossom and produce fruit.
- Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
- Only such traits develop as find a stimulus in the environment.
- Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
- He was not a rebuke, but a stimulus, and banished morbidity.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- He would tell us that you cannot restore strength by a stimulus.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
Synonyms for stimulus
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