Dictionary entries for 'stimulus'

Synonyms

stim·u·lus (stĭḿyə-ləs)

[Latin, goad.]

noun: pl., -li (-lī́)

Something causing or regarded as causing a response.
An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive: “Works which were in themselves poor have often proved a stimulus to the imagination” (W.H. Auden)