Synonyms for stimulation
stim·u·la·tion

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1. stimulationnoun

   the act of arousing an organism to action

   Synonyms:
   foreplay, input, stimulant, arousal, stimulus

2. stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, inputnoun

   any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

   Synonyms:
   comment, input signal, remark, foreplay, input, arousal, stimulus, stimulant, excitant, stimulant drug

3. stimulationnoun

   (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

   Synonyms:
   foreplay, input, stimulant, arousal, stimulus

4. foreplay, arousal, stimulationnoun

   mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

   Synonyms:
   arousal, rousing, stimulant, foreplay, input, stimulus

Matched Categories

1. • Arousal
   • Natural Process
   • Physiology
   • Sexual Activity

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1. List of paraphrases for "stimulation":

   pacing, stimulus, stimulating, stimulatory, stimulate, encouragement, incentive, boost

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How to use stimulation in a sentence?

1. Joanna Fryben:

   After the short cryotherapy stimulation, the effects last from six to eight hours, where the muscle spasticity is being reduced, when you feel endorphins release and adrenaline release. Then if you do 10-20 treatments, the effects last around two to three months.

2. Elaine Taylor-Klaus:

   For some people (with ADHD), there's a need for constant stimulation, what a fidget allows some people -- not all people -- with ADHD to do is to focus their attention on what they want to focus on, because there's sort of a background motion that's occupying that need.

3. Reggie Edgerton:

   There’s every reason to believe that one could enhance the recovery beginning [spinal cord stimulation] at a very early stage.

4. Albert Einstein:

   It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

5. Kevin Cramer:

   Maybe some tax cuts or tax deferral would be in order, but I'm not sure the market's looking for stimulation into the economy. The market is looking for the coronavirus to be solved.