Usually means: Stimulation of physical or emotional response.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word arousal:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. arousal: Merriam-Webster
  2. arousal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arousal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. arousal: Vocabulary.com
  5. Arousal, arousal: Wordnik
  6. arousal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. arousal: Wiktionary
  8. arousal: Dictionary.com
  9. Arousal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Arousal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. arousal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. arousal: Rhymezone
  13. Arousal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. arousal: FreeDictionary.org
  15. arousal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. arousal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. arousal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. arousal: Merriam-Webster

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  1. arousal: Legal dictionary

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. arousal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. arousal: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  6. arousal: Medical dictionary
  7. Arousal: Brain Injury

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
noun:  Sexual arousal.
noun:  A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
noun:  Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

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