Arousal vs Awake - What's the difference?
arousal | awake |
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.
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
As a noun arousal
is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.As an adjective awake is
not asleep; conscious.As a verb awake is
to become conscious after having slept.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