SEXUAL AROUSAL Synonyms

• the act of arousing

• a state of heightened physiological activity

• awakening from sleep

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

• an inclination to want things

• something that is desired

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• expect and wish

• express a desire for

• an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression

• a feeling of joy and pride

• a state of anticipation of sexuality

• the arousal of feelings of sexual desire

• the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• something that agitates and arouses

• disturbance usually in protest

• lively high-spirited playfulness

• a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

• the presence of heat

• the sensation caused by heat energy

• the trait of being intensely emotional

• applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

• a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race

• utility to warm a building

• make hot or hotter

• provide with heat

• arouse or excite feelings and passions

• gain heat or get hot

• a state of sexual arousal

• a strong sexual desire

• a strong feeling or emotion

• the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

• the trait of being intensely emotional

• something that is desired intensely

• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

• a feeling of strong sexual desire

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment

• something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action

• needed encouragement

• desire for sensual pleasures

• the act of arousing an organism to action

• any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

• (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

• cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input

• feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

• tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

• fill with sublime emotion

• a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling)

• an agreeable arousal

• the act of tickling

• something causing excitement or stimulating interest