NEGATIVE STIMULUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)