Synonyms & Antonyms : Stimulus





Stimulus



( Noun )


She worked very hard under the stimulus of monetary award.

Synonyms:

Spur

Incitement

Inducement

Incentive

Contextual Examples:

Modern films spur ideas of violence and sex among children and young students, but such incitement does not necessarily make them bad individuals as their dormant feelings find only theoretical expression through such spur and not practical demoralizations.

Science and technology provide inducement to more and more products of comfort in society. They are a great incentive to the economic development of a country.



Antonyms:

Deterrent

Dissuasion

Hindrance

Contextual Examples:

Sophisticated armaments are as much as deterrent to wars as they are a danger to mankind.

While science and technology help produce atomic and hydrogen bombs, developments in social sciences act as dissuasion factors against their use.

Hence science and technology are not a hindrance to human progress.




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