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Excitation vs Arousal - What's the difference?

excitation | arousal |

As nouns the difference between excitation and arousal

is that excitation is the act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening while arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

excitation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
  • The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
  • (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation
  • (physics) The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy

    • Derived terms

    * excitation energy * excitation function

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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