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stresser

stresser is the alternative form of stressor.

Meaning of stressor

Noun

stressor (plural stressors)

  1. An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
    • These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 162

Forms of stresser

pluralstressers

Origin of stresser

From stress + -er.

Questions about stresser

What is stresser the alternative form of?
Stresser is the alternative form of stressor.

Words near stresser in the dictionary

  1. stressed out
  2. stressed-out
  3. stressedness
  4. stressee
  5. stressees
  6. stresser
  7. stressers
  8. stresses
  9. stresses of weather
  10. stresses out
  11. stressfree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stresser (page history and authors); stressor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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