stimuluses
- 1Plural of stimulus, rare; the usual plural is stimuli.
Researchers exposed the volunteers to a series of visual and auditory stimuluses.
The body responds to physical stimuluses such as heat, pressure, and pain.
Note
The regular English plural, built with -es the way buses and viruses are, rather than the Latin stimuli. In scientific and academic writing stimuli remains far more frequent, so this form can look like a slip in a research paper. It serves every meaning of the singular: a spur to action, a signal that triggers a sensory or physiological response, and even the stinging part of a plant or insect.
stimuluses is a form of stimulus
stimulus, noun: An outside thing or event that influences a system by triggering or changing something within it, such as a spur that drives someone to act. Full entry
- Spelling
- stimulus → stimuluses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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