noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress. countable, uncountable

Verb

1. 1
   To cause eustress for someone.

Antonyms

All antonyms

distress

Etymology

From eu- + stress, coined by contrast with distress, as if interpreting the latter as dys- + stress.

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