Meaning of Arousal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
2. Sexual arousal.
3. 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.
4. Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

Equivalents

Examples

“bodily arousal”

“emotional arousal”

“to influence the arousal of brain and behavior”

“Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet.”

“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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