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stressor
[stres-er, -awr]
stressor
/ ˈٰɛə /
noun
an event, experience, etc, that causes stress
Example Sentences
It features works that imagine a future where technology and city planning better respond to environmental stressors, including Pascaline Doucin-Dahlke’s “Suspended Garden.”
“California’s national marine sanctuaries unfortunately do not limit damaging stressors on marine biodiversity,” said Sandy Aylesworth, director of the Pacific Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Advice on one of the first posts that pops up is to turn my phone off - it's a big stressor.
But for people like Rodriguez — a sole breadwinner living in a rent-controlled apartment — it’s just another stressor compounding an already grim financial reality.
Bhattacharya and his co-author posited that “masking is a psychological stressor for children and disrupts learning,” and “it is likely that masking exacerbates the chances that a child will experience anxiety and depression.”
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