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Exalt vs Arousal - What's the difference?

exalt | arousal |

As a verb exalt

is to honor; to hold in high esteem.

As a noun arousal is

the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

exalt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To honor; to hold in high esteem.
    • They exalted their queen.
  • To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.
    • The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.

    Derived terms

    * exaltedly * exaltedness * exalter

    See also

    * exult

    Anagrams

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    arousal

    English

    (wikipedia arousal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
    • bodily arousal
    emotional arousal
    to influence the arousal of brain and behavior
  • Sexual arousal.
    • Some people get sexual arousal from the depiction of feet.
  • 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,
    • Subjects report the physiological arousals induced by adrenaline and placebo differently.
  • Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
    • the mechanism for arousal from sleep
    the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal

    Synonyms

    * horniness