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superstimulus

noun

Etymology

From super- + stimulus.

  1. borrowed from stimulus
  2. prefixed as superstimulus — “super + stimulus”

Definitions

  1. A supernormal stimulus

    A supernormal stimulus; an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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