stimulation
Activity or experience that makes your mind or feelings more active and interested.
The process or effect of making someone's mind or emotions more active, interested, or engaged.
Action that makes a part of the body or the senses react more strongly.
The act or process of affecting a sense organ or body part so that it reacts, often creating pleasure, alertness, or pain.
A medical method that uses electricity, magnets, or chemicals to make nerves or brain cells more or less active.
A medical or scientific technique in which controlled electrical, magnetic, chemical, or other energy is applied to nerves or tissues to change their activity.
Actions, usually by a government or bank, that try to make people and companies spend and invest more money.
Measures or conditions that are intended to increase economic growth, spending, or market activity.
- Base: stimulation
- Plural: stimulation, stimulations
brain stimulation
1medical stimulation of the brain
Medical methods that use electricity or magnets to change how the brain works.
- Deep brain stimulation can help reduce tremors in some patients.
- Researchers are testing brain stimulation as a treatment for depression.
economic stimulation
1policies to boost the economy
Actions by a government or bank to make people and companies spend and invest more money.
- The tax cuts were introduced as a form of economic stimulation.
- Many experts agree that further economic stimulation is needed to reduce unemployment.
electrical stimulation
1using electricity to activate tissue
Using small electric signals to make nerves or muscles work.
- The physiotherapist used electrical stimulation to help strengthen the patient's leg muscles.
- Electrical stimulation can be adjusted to different levels depending on the treatment.
intellectual stimulation
1challenging, thought‑provoking activity
Serious or deep ideas and discussions that make you think hard.
- The conference provided exactly the kind of intellectual stimulation she had been missing.
- He enjoys the intellectual stimulation of debating complex topics with friends.
mental stimulation
1activity that exercises the mind
Activities or experiences that make you think and keep your mind active.
- Puzzles and reading provide good mental stimulation for older adults.
- He changed jobs because he wanted more mental stimulation.
- Language learning offers a lot of mental stimulation.
sensory stimulation
1input that activates the senses
Things like light, sound, or touch that make your eyes, ears, skin, and other senses react.
- The therapy room is designed to provide gentle sensory stimulation for children with autism.
- Too much sensory stimulation, such as bright lights and loud music, can be overwhelming.
sexual stimulation
1causing sexual arousal
Touch, thoughts, or other things that make a person feel sexually excited.
- The medication can reduce sexual stimulation and desire.
- The book clearly warns that it contains scenes of sexual stimulation for adult readers.
visual stimulation
1stimulation through sight
Colors, shapes, and movement that make your eyes work and send signals to your brain.
- Bright toys on the crib provide visual stimulation for the baby.
- The museum uses screens and lights for extra visual stimulation.