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Arousal

//əˈɹaʊzəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

    "bodily arousal"

  2. 2
    the act of arousing wordnet
  3. 3
    Sexual arousal.

    "Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet."

  4. 4
    mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse wordnet
  5. 5
    A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.

    "2003, Jinhee Choi, "Fits and Startles: Cognitivism Revisited," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring), p. 152, Subjects report the physiological arousals induced by adrenaline and placebo differently."

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  1. 6
    awakening from sleep wordnet
  2. 7
    Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

    "the mechanism for arousal from sleep"

  3. 8
    a state of heightened physiological activity wordnet

Etymology

From arouse + -al.

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