understimulate
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (transitive) To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
- 1992, Robert Paul Liberman, Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation:
- Thus, as Wing and Brown (1970) observed, an understimulating "back ward" may lead to withdrawal and a lack of external social stimulation and support.