Arousal vs Shock - What's the difference?
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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.
Sudden, heavy impact.
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
* Thomson
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
Arousal is a related term of shock.
As nouns the difference between arousal and shock
is that arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused while shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.As a verb shock is
to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.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
* horninessshock
English
(wikipedia shock)Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
Derived terms
* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndromeSynonyms
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*Verb
(en verb)- The disaster shocked the world.
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).