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Arousing vs Titillating - What's the difference?

arousing | titillating |

As verbs the difference between arousing and titillating

is that arousing is while titillating is .

As adjectives the difference between arousing and titillating

is that arousing is that or who arouses or arouse while titillating is pleasantly and sensually exciting.

As a noun arousing

is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused.

arousing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That or who arouses or arouse.
    • I am having very arousing thoughts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Will Levington Comfort, title=Fate Knocks at the Door, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings , mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Anna Bishop Scofield, title=Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, chapter=, edition=2nd ed. citation
    • , passage=These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity. }}

    titillating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pleasantly and sensually exciting.
  • Arousing.