Arousal vs Alertness - What's the difference?
arousal | alertness |
The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
Sexual arousal.
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,
Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
As nouns the difference between arousal and alertness
is that arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused while alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.arousal
English
(wikipedia arousal)Noun
(en noun)- bodily arousal
- emotional arousal
- to influence the arousal of brain and behavior
- Some people get sexual arousal from the depiction of feet.
- Subjects report the physiological arousals induced by adrenaline and placebo differently.
- the mechanism for arousal from sleep
- the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal