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Intoxicating vs Arousing - What's the difference?

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Intoxicating is a related term of arousing.


As adjectives the difference between intoxicating and arousing

is that intoxicating is (of a substance) able to intoxicate; an intoxicant while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.

As verbs the difference between intoxicating and arousing

is that intoxicating is while arousing is .

As a noun arousing is

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

intoxicating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a substance) Able to intoxicate; an intoxicant.
  • Very exciting and stimulating, especially as if by alcohol or some stimulant.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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. }}