Synonyms:
stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input
Meaning: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
Usage examples
It is caused by what we call a STIMULUS.
I lived on dread; to those who know The stimulus there is In danger, other impetus Is numb and vital-less.
It strikes the mind with varying degrees of force or liveliness according to the varying intensity of the stimulus.
The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed.
The unfulfilled wish, to which he reacts by means of the dream, is the psychic sleep-disturbing stimulus for the child.
Does the heart leap to-night, do the veins fill with the rush of the blood, tumultuous in the joy of stimulus or danger?
For the general in the war, or a common soldier, or a citizen of one of the contending nations, the stimulus to thinking is direct and urgent.
For example, we are almost totally ignorant of the stimulus which causes the mother to fall into labor approximately 280 days after the last normal menstruation.
The dream, as a reaction to the psychic stimulus, must have the value of a release of this stimulus which results in its elimination and in the continuation of sleep.
Indeed, it was apparent that the stimulus, in the empty state of their stomachs, had taken instant and violent effect, and that they were all exceedingly intoxicated.