| arousal | |
| 1. n. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused. | |
| bodily arousal | |
| emotional arousal | |
| to influence the arousal of brain and behavior | |
| 2. n. Sexual arousal. | |
| Some people get sexual arousal from the depiction of feet. | |
| 3. n. 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. n. Arousal from sleep or hibernation. | |
| the mechanism for arousal from sleep | |
| the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal | |
