Meaning

4 senses
  1. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

    bodily arousal

    emotional arousal

    Erregung, Erregtsein, Erregtheit

    пробужде́ниеprobuždénije, бо́дрствованиеbódrstvovanije

    the act of arousing

  2. Sexual arousal.

    Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet.

    Erregung

    возбужде́ниеvozbuždénije

    збудженняzbudžennja

    mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

  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.

    the mechanism for arousal from sleep

    The animal undergoes regular spells of arousal.

    Aufweckung, Aufwachen, Erwachen

    awakening from sleep

Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sexual arousal:
Русский
By meaning 2
the act of arousing or the state of being aroused:
sexual arousal:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the act of arousing or the state of being aroused:
arousal from sleep or hibernation:

Forms

plural: arousals
Singulararousal
Pluralarousals

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
sexual arousal:horniness
state of being reactive to stimuli:alertness
arousal from sleep:wakefulness
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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