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Heady vs Arousing - What's the difference?

heady | arousing |

As adjectives the difference between heady and arousing

is that heady is intoxicating or stupefying while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.

As a verb arousing is

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As a noun arousing is

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

heady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • intoxicating or stupefying
  • * The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  • tending to upset the mind or senses
  • * We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
  • exhilarating
  • * The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  • intellectual
  • * Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
  • rash or impetuous
  • * He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.

    • Derived terms

    * headily * headiness

    Anagrams

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    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. }}