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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stimulationnoun

    the act of arousing an organism to action

  2. stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, inputnoun

    any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

  3. stimulationnoun

    (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

  4. foreplay, arousal, stimulationnoun

    mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

Wiktionary

  1. stimulationnoun

    A pushing or goading toward action.

  2. stimulationnoun

    An activity causing excitement or pleasure.

  3. stimulationnoun

    Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input.

  4. Etymology: From stimulatio.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Stimulationnoun

    Excitement; pungency.

    Etymology: stimulatio, Latin.

    Some persons, from the secret stimulations of vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

Wikipedia

  1. Stimulation

    Stimulation is the debut single from Australian pop group Wa Wa Nee. The song was released in April 1986 as the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album. The song peaked at number 2 on the Australian singles chart. The group performed the song live on Countdown on 20 July 1986. In 2015, the song was listed at number 25 in In the Mix's '100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time' with Nick Jarvis said "its dad-dance-inducing extended mix, a seven-minute slap-bass odyssey that rivals Prince's finest work for generating dancefloor fire".

ChatGPT

  1. stimulation

    Stimulation refers to the act of encouraging, provoking, or causing some sort of activity or response, typically in a physiological or psychological sense. This can involve using some form of stimuli such as light, sound, heat, or chemical substance to induce a response from a nervous system or cell in an organism. It can also refer to the act of arousing interest, enthusiasm, or excitement in something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stimulationnoun

    the act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated

  2. Stimulationnoun

    the irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation

  3. Etymology: [L. stimulatio: cf. F. stimulation.]

Wikidata

  1. Stimulation

    Stimulation is the action of various agents on nerves, muscles, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity. The word is also often used metaphorically. For example, an interesting or fun activity can be described as "stimulating", regardless of its physical effects on nerves. Stimulate means act as stimulus to, stimulus means things that rouses to activity, now rouses means exciting, stirring.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stimulation in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stimulation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stimulation in a Sentence

  1. Owen Glendening:

    This is the building that answers the question, 'How it was won.' it has been designed for the next generation. There's a lot of stimulation.

  2. Albert Einstein:

    It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  3. Attorney Robert Driscoll:

    These inmates are locked up and enclosed in a steel door cage the size of a parking space, deprived of any meaningful human contact or sensory stimulation for 22 hours a day, every day, with no release date in sight.

  4. Kat Van Kirk:

    This means it can help fortify your overall health and be better on your stomach so you won’t feel sluggish during sex, she says. RELATED: Shirtless Nick Jonas Explains How He Got His New Buff Body 5. There's even a beer specifically engineered to enhance performance. 50 Shades of Green is basically like green juice and Viagra combined. It uses ginseng, ginkgo biloba and damiana to achieve increased sexual desire, blood flow and nerve stimulation.

  5. Andre Machado:

    The expectation is that by applying stimulation, it will augment or boost the effects of physical rehabilitation, we have no expectation that it will cure stroke.

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