Meaning

5 senses

  1. (informal, uncountable)Sensory stimulation.

  2. Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

  3. (countable)Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.

  4. (slang)Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

  5. (Ireland, rare)A whit or jot; the least amount.

    That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

Clipping of stimulation or stimulate. Clipping of stimulant. Likely related to Scots sti

Clipping of stimulation or stimulate.

Clipping of stimulant.

Likely related to Scots stime; both perhaps from Old English scima (“shine”).

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Forms

plural: stims
Singularstim
Pluralstims

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
stimulantB2self-stimulationself-stim

Word family

9 related words
Deriveddestimelectrostime-stimstim boardstimmystim toyself-stimstimfapstim pack

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stillbornstillnessstiltstimulantB2stimulateB2stimulationB2

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