stimulationn.
/stɪmjʊˈleɪʃən/ The action of stimulating or condition of being stimulated.
1. A pricking, goading, or spurring on to action; incitement; †pricking or compunction of conscience (obsolete).
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation
puttingOE
sleatinga1122
eggingc1200
pricking?c1225
enticement1303
movinga1382
eggmentc1386
stirring1399
instinct1412
instigationc1422
motiona1425
provocationa1425
coyingc1440
ertingc1440
tollingc1440
artation1441
incitation1477
instinction1490
inhortationc1503
stimulation1526
abetment1533
onsetting1541
provokement?1545
incitament1579
stirring?c1580
irritation1589
incitement1594
spurring1611
to give foment to1613
fomenting1615
prompturea1616
proritation1615
urgea1618
exstimulation1626
fomentation1633
instinctment1661
spurning1672
impulsing1885
society > morality > [noun] > moral sense > conscience > prompting
punction1548
voice1600
stimulation1640
rejag1642
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. YYYv The stimulacions of the flesshe.
1640 Ld. Digby Speech in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 171 The Danger, when either true, or pretended Stimulation of Conscience hath once given a multitude Agitation.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 145. ⁋5 That industry which the stimulations of necessity..enforce.
1860 J. S. Mill Consider. Represent. Govt. (1865) 27/2 To supply reasons to his understanding, and stimulation to his feeling.
1873 E. H. Clarke Sex in Educ. 106 The same girls are apt to be quick,..and need not stimulation, but repression.
2. Physiology and Medicine. The action of a stimulus: (a) excitation to increased activity, quickening of some vital function or process (cf. stimulus n. 1); in quot. 1733 loosely, stimulating property (cf. stimulus n. 1b); (b) excitation of an organ or tissue to its specific activity (cf. stimulus n. 3).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [noun]
stimulation1733
stimulus1785
irritation1794
excitation1862
restimulation1866
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates
spice?c1225
comfort1377
refresherc1450
refreshment1532
reviver1542
sauce1561
salt1579
refocillation1608
whettera1625
fillip1699
stimulant1728
stimulation1733
yeast1769
stimulus1791
inspiriter1821
stimulatory1821
refreshener1824
boost1825
bracer1826
young blood1830
freshener1838
invigoratorc1842
blow1849
tonic1849
elevation1850
stimulator1851
breather1876
pick-me-up1876
a shot in the arm1922
the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [noun] > types of
stimulation1733
alcoholization1836
galvanization1860
brain vibration1864
barotaxy1906
microstimulation1946
reafference1953
self-stimulation1961
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > stimulation
stimulus1684
stimulation1733
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. 186 The Bile, by its natural Acrimony and Stimulation [etc.].
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 217 The vaccine poison..produces inflammation, a little tumour, and sometimes pustule, which are not the effects of the specific stimulation of the matter.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 373 The stimulation communicated to or subtracted from the brain by the light.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xv. 183 We should resort to stimulation by wine.
1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) App. 719 Muscles..can be thrown into contraction by stimulation of these lower centres.
1900 W. S. Hall Text-bk. Physiol. 52 A muscle-cell responds to all stimuli by contracting, a gland-cell by secreting, while the stimulation of the optic nerve can only produce the sensation of light.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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