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
Example sentences :
  • 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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