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noun
A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cause eustress for someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From eu- + stress, coined by contrast with distress, as if interpreting the latter as dys- + stress.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
