stress
noun
importance attached to a thing.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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So stressed fathers will have stressed children because of epigenetics, because the stress changed some of the expression of some of the genes, which then changed some other substances in his sperm.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021