Provocative vs Arousing - What's the difference?
provocative | arousing | Synonyms |
Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
(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=
, 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.
, 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. }}
Provocative is a synonym of arousing.
As adjectives the difference between provocative and arousing
is that provocative is serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.As nouns the difference between provocative and arousing
is that provocative is while arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused.As a verb arousing is
.provocative
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- She used by way of Provocative , to read the wanton Verses of her (Paramour) in the day time [...].
arousing
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Verb
(head)Noun
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