stim

See also: știm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɪm/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Etymology 1

An autistic adult stimming with a fidget toy

Clipping of stimulation or stimulate.

Noun

stim (plural stims)

1. (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.
   • 1986 January, Joan Fox, “Can You Get Tanned and Trim Without Sun or Exercise?”, in Cincinnati, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, page 102:

     “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. […] ”

2. (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

   Synonyms: self-stimulation, self-stim

   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly‎^[2], volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 January 2022:

     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.

3. (pharmacology, obstetrics, countable) Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.

Derived terms

• e-stim
• self-stim
• stim board
• stim toy

Translations

repetitive self-stimulatory action

• French: autostimulation (fr) f, stim (fr) m (autism)
• Portuguese: stim m
• Serbo-Croatian: stimanje n
• Spanish: acción autoestimulatorio repetitivo f, comportamiento autoestimulatorio repetitivo m

Verb

stim (third-person singular simple present stims, present participle stimming, simple past and past participle stimmed)

1. (psychology, intransitive) To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
   • 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly‎^[3], volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 January 2022:

     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.

Derived terms

• self-stim
• stimmer

Translations

to perform a repetitive self-stimulating action

• French: s’autostimuler (fr), stimmer (fr) (autism)
• Serbo-Croatian: stimati (sh)
• Spanish: autoestimular[se], estimularse (es)

Etymology 2

Clipping of stimulant.

Noun

stim (plural stims)

1. (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).

Derived terms

• stimfap
• stim pack

Translations

stimulant drug

• French: stimulant (fr) m, stim (fr) m (slang)

Etymology 3

Likely related to Scots stime; both perhaps from Old English scima (“shine”).

Noun

stim (plural stims)

1. (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.

   That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

Anagrams

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, smit

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stím.

Noun

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimer, definite plural stimene)

stim n (definite singular stimet, indefinite plural stim, definite plural stima or stimene)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

Derived terms

• fiskestim

References

• “stim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stím.

Noun

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimar, definite plural stimane)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

Derived terms

• fiskestim

References

• “stim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

ett (fisk)stim [a school/shoal (of fish)]

Etymology

From Old Swedish stim, from Old Norse stím, ultimately from a root meaning "to hang together, stand," from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).

Noun

stim n

1. a school, a shoal (large group of fish (or other sea creatures) swimming together)

   Synonym: (fish, as is usual) fiskstim

2. (uncountable) bustle, buzz ((excited activity with) loud noise of many blended voices)

Declension

Declension of stim

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	stim	stims
	definite	stimmet	stimmets
plural	indefinite	stim	stims
	definite	stimmen	stimmens

Derived terms

• fiskstim
• fittstim
• torskstim

Related terms

• stimma
• stimmig

References

• stim in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stim in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• mist

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian stemme, from Proto-Germanic *stamnijō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɪm/

Noun

stim c (plural stimmen, diminutive stimke)

1. voice
2. vote

Further reading

• “stim”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011