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.

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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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