arousing
/əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.83 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
Example Sentences
- "I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts."
- "There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings, mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy."
- "These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity."