Arousal

//əˈɹaʊzəl//

"Arousal" in a Sentence (13 examples)

All pleasurable activities cause arousal of the pleasure centers of the brain.

Exhibitionism is characterized by achieving sexual arousal through the display of genitalia, usually to an unsuspecting stranger.

I've never felt such a strange combination of fear and arousal.

"Prurient" is a word that men use to blame other people for their sexual arousal.

Pornography can desensitize individuals to sexual content, leading to a need for more extreme material to achieve arousal.

In short, "kink" covers diverse unconventional sexual interests, while a "fetish" is a specific fixation on something for sexual arousal.

bodily arousal

emotional arousal

to influence the arousal of brain and behavior

Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet.

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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.

the mechanism for arousal from sleep

The animal undergoes regular spells of arousal.

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