As nouns the difference between irritant and stimulus
is that
irritant is any medication designed to cause irritation while
stimulus is .
As an adjective irritant
is causing irritation or inflammation.
irritant English
Adjective
( -)
Causing irritation or inflammation.
(legal, Scotland) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
* Hayward
- The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant ; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance.
Noun
( en noun)
Any medication designed to cause irritation
A source of irritation.
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stimulus Noun
( stimuli)
(rfc-sense) Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.
- an economic stimulus
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, passage=Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus , to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.}}
(rfc-sense) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
(rfc-sense) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
(rfc-sense) Anything that induces a person to take action.
Synonyms
* (anything that may have an impact or influence) influence
* (anything that induces a person to take action) impetus, impulse, spur
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