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NEGATIVE STIMULUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stimulus with undesirable consequences
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("negative stimulus" is a kind of...):
input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "negative stimulus"):
annoyance; bother; botheration; infliction; pain; pain in the ass; pain in the neck (something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness)
aversive stimulus (any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it)
concern; headache; vexation; worry (something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness)
