Arousal vs Rouse - What's the difference?
arousal | rouse |
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.
an arousal
(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
* Atterbury
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
* Milton
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
an official ceremony over drinks
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
* Tennyson
wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
As nouns the difference between arousal and rouse
is that arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused while rouse is an arousal or rouse can be an official ceremony over drinks.As a verb rouse is
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.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
* horninessrouse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.Alternative forms
* rouze (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rous)- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
- to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
- Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
- Morpheus rouses from his bed.
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
- Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
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Etymology 2
From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".Noun
(en noun)- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
- Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.