negative stimulation

1. 1.

   something causing antagonism or loss of interest

   Synonymsturnoff

   Broaderstimulation

   colloquialism

Questions about negative stimulation

What does negative stimulation mean?

negative stimulation means "something causing antagonism or loss of interest".

What is another word for negative stimulation?

Close synonyms include turnoff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is negative stimulation a common word?

negative stimulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.