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Restorative vs Arousing - What's the difference?

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Restorative is a related term of arousing.


As nouns the difference between restorative and arousing

is that restorative is something with restoring properties while arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused.

As adjectives the difference between restorative and arousing

is that restorative is serving to restore while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.

As a verb arousing is

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restorative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something with restoring properties.
  • (euphemistic) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
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    • References

    * OED2

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Serving to restore.
    • After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
  • * Milton
    • Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.

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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. }}