Stimuli vs. Stimulus

Stimuli vs. Stimulus — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Stimuli and Stimulus

Stimulinoun

Something causing or regarded as causing a response.

Stimulusnoun

Something causing or regarded as causing a response.

Stimulinoun

An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.

Stimulusnoun

An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.

Stimulinoun

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).

Stimulusnoun

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).
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Stimulinoun

Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity.

Stimulusnoun

Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity.

Stimulusnoun

Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.

an economic stimulus

Stimulusnoun

(physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.

Stimulusnoun

(psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.

Stimulusnoun

Anything that induces a person to take action.

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Stimulusnoun

any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action