Arousal vs Attraction - What's the difference?
arousal | attraction |
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.
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Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
The tendency to attract.
The feeling of being attracted.
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(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
As nouns the difference between arousal and attraction
is that arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused while attraction is the tendency to attract.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
Synonyms
* horninessattraction
English
Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}