negative stimulus

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   a stimulus with undesirable consequences

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Questions about negative stimulus

What does negative stimulus mean?

negative stimulus means "a stimulus with undesirable consequences".

Is negative stimulus a common word?

negative stimulus 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.