Impels vs Stimulates - What's the difference?
impels | stimulates |
(impel)
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).
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, chapter=2 To drive forward; to propel an object.
(stimulate)
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
As verbs the difference between impels and stimulates
is that impels is (impel) while stimulates is (stimulate).impels
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(impell)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}