arousal

Other forms of arousal

plural

arousals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arousal

What does arousal mean?

arousal means "the act of arousing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arousal?

arousal has 3 syllables: a-rou-sal. The stress falls on "rou". In IPA it is /ɚˈaʊzəl/.

What is another word for arousal?

Close synonyms include rousing, foreplay, stimulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arousal a common word?

arousal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.