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Thrilling vs Arousing - What's the difference?

thrilling | arousing | Related terms |

Thrilling is a related term of arousing.


As verbs the difference between thrilling and arousing

is that thrilling is while arousing is .

As adjectives the difference between thrilling and arousing

is that thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement while arousing is that or who arouses or arouse.

As nouns the difference between thrilling and arousing

is that thrilling is a thrill while arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused.

thrilling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
    • ----

    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. }}