trophotropy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of relaxation, drowsiness and inactivity induced by the parasympathetic nervous system and the action of serotonin.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Jansen's experiments on noise-induced nervous stress establish that the effect of noise is to create a higher activation of the organism, that is, a transition of the general state from trophotropy to ergotropy."
- "This shifts the attention towards the states of ergotropy and trophotropy."
Etymology
From tropho- + -tropy.