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- noun
excessive stimulation
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Examples
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What starts the ticcing and the overstimulation is the transition from the light to dark
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The kind of overstimulation that you can feel in the [industrialized] countries, both in Japan and in America, is very close to the ways I've been raising my kids - I have three of them - which is not giving our kids one single minute of free brain occupation.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Adriana Barton 2010
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Around the same time, Dr. Beutler, born in 1957 in Chicago, was studying the mechanism behind septic shock, a potentially deadly condition involving overstimulation of the immune system.
Nobel for Immunity Research Gautam Naik 2011
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And the recovery and convalescence that she undergoes is an exemplary instance of what doctors nowadays call ‘pacing’, a minutely slow return to activity that is alive to the dangers of overstimulation.
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My eyes adjusted to the overstimulation and began to take in the work as a whole.
Mr. Brainwash Readies 'Art Show 2011' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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This should basically be called overstimulation. com.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Winking Around on Match.com Meredith Fineman 2010
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Some people need overstimulation in order to feel anything at all.
Avatar deliasherman 2010
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And the recovery and convalescence that she undergoes is an exemplary instance of what doctors nowadays call ‘pacing’, a minutely slow return to activity that is alive to the dangers of overstimulation.
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I'd wager that for them, AVATAR counts as "refined art," not overstimulation.
Avatar deliasherman 2010
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This should basically be called overstimulation. com.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Winking Around on Match.com Meredith Fineman 2010
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