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Definition of Arousals
1. arousal [n] - See also: arousal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arousals
Literary usage of Arousals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Your Guide to Healthy Sleep by National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute (2004)
"Parasomnias (Abnormal arousals) In some people, the walking, talking, and other
body functions normally suppressed during sleep emerge during certain sleep ..."
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... might nevertheless be strongly endowed with an inner capacity for magnetic
feeling; and as if, through the various arousals of its magnetism by magnets ..."
3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... sustained excitement of RL sex but a series of intermittent, gusty arousals,
each cued to the appearance of a new emote from 5”, each soon dispersed ..."
4. General Psychology by Walter Samuel Hunter (1919)
"All emotions other than these primary ones are complex, They are resolvable into
elements which are themselves faint arousals of the primary emotions. ..."
5. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"... gave the more noticeable arousals. But by ‘unpleasant' we must understand here
the many meanings of the term in the sense of Wundt's tridimensional ..."
6. Knights and Their Days by Doran (John) (1856)
"In all the festivals and arousals at court, Charles was not once permitted to
approach his star. ..."