self-stimulatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
8
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Appropriate play with toys was studied in two autistic children with high occurrences of self-stimulatory behavior"
- "Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression."
Etymology
From self- + stimulatory.