Stim

Quick meaning: Stim is a noun meaning (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.

Meaning

(informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.

More Meanings

1. (pharmacology, obstetrics, countable) Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.
2. (psychology, intransitive) To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
3. (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.
4. (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).
5. (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.

Example Sentences

That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

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.

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.

“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. […]”

Word Forms

• stims
• stimming
• stimmed

Synonyms for stim

Depending on context, synonyms include self-stimulation, self-stim, stimulant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stimming, stammer, pseudostuttering, shakes, stammering, ticking.

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