Noun: stimulus
| Singular | stimulus |
| Plural | stimuluses; stimuli |
Sample Sentences
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an economic stimulus
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From the beginning of the show to the end, vanity is the sole stimulus and reward of action—vanity, that never looks beyond the present. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 174:]
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Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties. [2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:]
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respond to a stimulus
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Even light nonpainful stimuli can provoke or exacerbate spontaneous pain; this is not limited to tactile, thermal, or vibratory stimuli, because auditory, visual, olfactory, and visceral stimuli also may be problematic. [2002, Kim Burchiel, Surgical Management of Pain, Thieme, →ISBN, page 44:]
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Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms for their protection; these are either aculei, prickles […]; or stimuli, stings, as in the nettles, which are armed with a venomous fluid for the annoyance of naked animals. [1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 15:]
Nouns inflected like stimulus
deinonychus,
shamus,
pearly nautilus,
splenic plexus,
paper nautilus,
boletus,
sight radius,
subfocus,
pandanus,
pegasus,
zoilus,
Bohr radius,
black fungus,
ranunculus,
prodromus,
periannulus,
organ pipe cactus,
pluteus,
star cactus,
periplous, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”). See: Latin Nouns '
stimulus'.