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stimulancy

stimulancy noun: the quality of being stimulating.

Noun

stimulancy (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being stimulating.
    • Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy, possess a proportional weight, and no more, in determining your judgment for or against its contents.1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, page liii
    • And if the water offered to us has been as fresh as the wit, and the wine as old and rich as the recollections, then recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy.1851, The Monthly Christian spectator, page 231
  2. The act of stimulating; stimulation.
    • I conceive extemporaneous worship has hitherto prevailed, because the appetite for devotion has needed the stimulancy of human passion and social excitement.1864, R.M. Abercrombie, The Prayer Book and Its Story: Principally Designed for the Young
    • The above work is edited by Sir Charles's sister-in-law, and is composed of many pleasantly-written letters, collected from friends and relations, most of them written by Sir Charles under the stimulancy of fresh scenery, or visits to famous geological sections, or to celebrated geologists.1882, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, page 111

Examples of stimulancy in a sentence

  • It would be well if his already over-wrought stimulancy could be somewhat tranquillized and enriched by the languor and sluggishness of the tropics.1857, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, “Africa and Colonization.” An address delivered before the Massachusetts Colonization Society, May...
  • Priestley, of Birmingham, who observed that oxygen gas was given off by plants when under the active stimulancy of sunlight.2013, John Ellor Taylor, The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure, and Management, →ISBN, page 10:

Origin of stimulancy

From stimulate + -ancy.

Questions about stimulancy

What does stimulancy mean?
Stimulancy means the quality of being stimulating.
How do you use stimulancy in a sentence?
It would be well if his already over-wrought stimulancy could be somewhat tranquillized and enriched by the languor and sluggishness of the tropics.
What part of speech is stimulancy?
Stimulancy is a noun.

Words near stimulancy in the dictionary

  1. Stimson Abordo
  2. Stimsons
  3. stimulability
  4. stimulable
  5. stimulance
  6. stimulancy
  7. stimulant
  8. stimulants
  9. stimulatability
  10. stimulatable
  11. stimulate

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