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EMOTIONAL AROUSAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emotional arousal mean?
• EMOTIONAL AROUSAL (noun)
The noun EMOTIONAL AROUSAL has 1 sense:
1. the arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior
Familiarity information: EMOTIONAL AROUSAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("emotional arousal" is a kind of...):
arousal (a state of heightened physiological activity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotional arousal"):
anger; angriness (the state of being angry)
excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation (the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up)
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