Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stim

/stɪm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: stim
IPA: /stɪm/

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Sensory stimulation.

Informal; Uncountable

noun

Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

noun

Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.

Countable

verb

To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.

Intransitive verb

noun

Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

Slang

noun

A whit or jot; the least amount.

Example Sentences

"“Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “[…] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […]”"
"Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us. […] At the beginning of March 2020, I discovered that many of the stims I regularly turned to were no longer accessible."
"Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us."
"That boy hasn't a stim of common sense."
"[I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy mushroom; but she will never see a stim with that eye again."

Etymology

Clipping of stimulation or stimulate.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /stɪm/
British English: /stɪm/

Usage

Inflected Forms

stims (plural) stims (present, singular) stimming (participle, present) stimmed (participle, past) stimmed (past)

Derived Forms

destim electrostim stimmy stimmable stimmer stimfap

Phrases

e-stim self-stim stim board stim toy stim pack

Synonyms

self-stimulation self-stim stimulant

Homonyms

stem (pin–pen merger)

Rhymes With

him jim kim tim gym swim slim trim rim sim pacific rim limb

Questions

How do you pronounce stim?: The recorded pronunciation is /stɪm/.
What does stim mean?: Sensory stimulation.
Where does stim come from?: Clipping of stimulation or stimulate.

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