Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. psychology A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.
Etymologies
- eu- + stress (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Selye 1974, 1978 uses the two separate terms eustress and distress to distinguish between positive and negative life consequences of stress for the individual, even though chemically the two forms of stress are exactly the same.”
“Some stress, called eustress, can be good for the body, such as the stress involved in winning the lottery and trying to figure out how to spend the winnings.”
“There are two types of stress, positive stress, sometimes called eustress, and negative stress.”
“Hans Selye, who laid the foundations of stress science in the 1930s, believed so strongly in good stress that he coined a word, "eustress," for it.”
“Prof. Len Zaichkowsky of the sports-psychology program at Boston University School of Medicine and School of Education compares the "eustress," or good stress characteristics, of spectating to the stress-relieving benefits associated with sexual activity.”
“Sometimes this beneficial stress is referred to as "eustress".”
“It seems like a natural extension to spend and recuperate energy in the most efficient manner possible: by creating eustress scenarios.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Gervais, Ph.D.: World Class Performers Unplug Differently
“In respect to energy maintenance and balance, eustress and distress have very different effects on the body.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Gervais, Ph.D.: World Class Performers Unplug Differently
“They attend to their internal dialog, continually searching for the most efficient and powerful ways to speak to themselves (i.e., looking to create eustress interpretations).”
The Huffington Post: Michael Gervais, Ph.D.: World Class Performers Unplug Differently
“The two types of stress are known as: eustress and distress.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Gervais, Ph.D.: World Class Performers Unplug Differently
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eustress’.
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NTDW2
yawp, smug, whit, amidships, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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theinfonaut's Words
pithy, voraciousness, aphorism, crumple, flaneur, coquettish, grace, discriminating, oscillation, assumption, nasturtium, petiole and 90 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Unitegration
Wholeness.
agathocacological, subsume, commix, milieu, comity, multivious, symphily, sobornost, myselves, coalescence, conglomerat, amalgam and 75 more...
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themewords
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euphoria
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eustress.
factoryjoe From Caterina Fake:
• Eustress = Positive exhilarating challenging experiences of success followed by higher expectations
• Distress = Disappointment, failure, threat, embarrassment and other negative experiences Aug 25, 2009
reesetee Well, that's just scary. And now I'm stressed about it. Feb 21, 2009
chained_bear "Was he calling this a pathological state, I asked—saying that people who feel they perform best under pressure actually have a disease? He thought for a minute, and then: 'You can absolutely say that. Yes, you can say that.'
"This kind of statement might well have the father of stress research lying awake worried in his grave. Hans Selye, who laid the foundations of stress science in the 1930s, believed so strongly in good stress that he coined a word, 'eustress,' for it. He saw stress as 'the salt of life.'"
—Mary Carmichael, "Who Says Stress Is Bad for You?" Newsweek, Feb. 23, 2009, 47. Feb 20, 2009
whichbe Stress that is deemed healthful or giving one the feeling of fulfillment. Jul 29, 2008