arousal
Collocations
5ADJ.
emotional, pleasurable, sexual
VERB + AROUSAL
achieve, achieving, cause, fear, influence
AROUSAL + NOUN
brain, pleasure
PREP.
through
ADV.
bodily
Definitions
noun
The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
bodily arousal
emotional arousal
Sexual arousal.
Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet.
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.
Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
the mechanism for arousal from sleep
The animal undergoes regular spells of arousal.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of arousing
- rousing
noun — mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6bodily arousal
Wiktionaryemotional arousal
Wiktionaryto influence the arousal of brain and behavior
WiktionaryAll pleasurable activities cause arousal of the pleasure centers of the brain.
Tatoeba · #8985137Exhibitionism is characterized by achieving sexual arousal through the display of genitalia, usually to an unsuspecting stranger.
Tatoeba · #10624572I've never felt such a strange combination of fear and arousal.
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