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arousal

/əˈɹaʊzəl/

arousal noun: the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

Noun

arousal (plural arousals)

  1. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
    • bodily arousal
    • emotional arousal
  2. Sexual arousal.
    • Some people get arousal from the depiction of feet.
    Synonyms:
    horniness
  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.
    • Subjects report the physiological arousals induced by adrenaline and placebo differently.2003, Jinhee Choi, "Fits and Startles: Cognitivism Revisited," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring), p. 152
    Synonyms:
    alertness
  4. Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
    • the mechanism for arousal from sleep
    • The animal undergoes regular spells of arousal.
    Synonyms:
    wakefulness

arousal meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

arousal in Tamil

விழிப் புணர்ச்சி, எழுப்புதல்

arousal in Tagalog

sexual arousal
pagka-libog

Examples of arousal in a sentence

  • In chronobiology, a circasemidian rhythm is a physiological arousal cycle that peaks twice in a 24-hour day.
  • Infants who breastsleep have a lighter, more natural sleep with more arousals and more breastfeeds per night.
  • Books in this category, he wrote, subordinated aesthetic, philosophical, and narrative values to the goal of arousal.

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Synonyms of arousal

Forms of arousal

pluralarousals

Plural of arousal: arousals

Origin of arousal

From arouse + -al.

Words formed from arousal

Phrases with arousal

Words that rhyme with arousal

Questions about arousal

What does arousal mean?
Arousal means the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
What is arousal in Tamil?
Arousal in Tamil is விழிப் புணர்ச்சி, எழுப்புதல். See Arousal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is arousal?
Arousal is a noun.
How do you pronounce arousal?
Arousal is pronounced /əˈɹaʊzəl/.
What is the plural of arousal?
The plural of arousal is arousals.

Words near arousal in the dictionary

  1. aroundness
  2. aroura
  3. arouras
  4. arousability
  5. arousable
  6. arousal
  7. arousals
  8. arouse
  9. aroused
  10. arousement
  11. arouser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arousal (page history and authors); arousal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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