Arousal vs Awareness - What's the difference?
arousal | awareness |
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 state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
The state or quality of being aware of something
As nouns the difference between arousal and awareness
is that arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused while awareness is the state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.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
* horninessawareness
English
Noun
(wikipedia awareness) (en-noun)- I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness .
- ''The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea