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stim

noun
/stɪm/US/stəm/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from stime; both perhaps from Old English scima — “shine”

Definitions

  1. Sensory stimulation.

  2. Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating…

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

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

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.

      • Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

    2. Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

    3. A whit or jot

      A whit or jot; the least amount.

      • That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stim. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA