NEGATIVE STIMULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative stimulus mean? 

• NEGATIVE STIMULUS (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVE STIMULUS has 1 sense:

1. a stimulus with undesirable consequences

  Familiarity information: NEGATIVE STIMULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGATIVE STIMULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stimulus with undesirable consequences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("negative stimulus" is a kind of...):

input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "negative stimulus"):

annoyance; bother; botheration; infliction; pain; pain in the ass; pain in the neck (something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness)

aversive stimulus (any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it)

concern; headache; vexation; worry (something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness)

grief; sorrow (something that causes great unhappiness)