Arousing vs Corrective - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between arousing and corrective

is that arousing is that or who arouses or arouse while corrective is of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

As nouns the difference between arousing and corrective

is that arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused while corrective is something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability.

As a verb arousing

is .

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. }}

corrective

English

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct

As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes .

Qualifying; limiting.

* Holdsworth

The Psalmist interposeth this corrective particle.

Noun

(en noun)

Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability

alkalies are correctives of acids

penalties are correctives of immoral conduct

(obsolete) limitation; restriction

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