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stressors

stressors is the plural 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

Questions about stressors

What is stressors the plural of?
Stressors is the plural of stressor.

Words near stressors in the dictionary

  1. stresslessness
  2. stresslet
  3. stresslets
  4. stressogenic
  5. stressor
  6. stressors
  7. stressosome
  8. stressosomes
  9. stressproof
  10. stresswise
  11. stressy

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