stimulation

Other forms of stimulation

plural

stimulations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stimulation

What does stimulation mean?

stimulation means "the act of arousing an organism to action". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stimulation?

stimulation has 4 syllables: stim-u-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌstɪmjəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for stimulation?

Close synonyms include stimulus, stimulant, input, foreplay, arousal. 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 stimulation a common word?

stimulation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with stimulation?

65 words rhyme with stimulation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.