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arousable

arousable

6.3
Easily woken from sleep or made alert
  • adjective
  • /əˈraʊzəbl/
translation icon : reactivo
  • Children are often more arousable than adults, reacting quickly to noises and movements around them.
  • more arousable
  • arousable persons
  • arousable residents

So it does make you be more hyper arousable, you know, when you're very stimulated.

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Examples

  • In high-density residences, more arousable residents reported greater anxiety and withdrawal and fewer attempts to form groups.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The stronger emotional response of more arousable individuals to high-information-rate situations understandably leads to their more frequent impulsive actions.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In sum, more arousable persons are more involved with and are more emotionally responsive to others.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Greater selective attention of more arousable persons to emotional elements of situations can thus help explain their greater brand sensitivity.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Accordingly, more arousable persons are expected to be more susceptible to the detrimental effects of stress.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In the same high-information-rate situation, more arousable persons, by virtue of being less selective, were seen as essentially processing more complex and varied information.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Findings by Andrews (1990) showed that more arousable persons had better recall of the more emotional events in movies they had seen six months earlier.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Andrews also obtained a TAS x Scene Emotional Content effect on recall, showing that more arousable subjects had better recall of the more emotional scenes.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Detailed findings from the Mehrabian and West (1977) study suggested that more arousable persons are more responsive to variations in the tasks and/or workplaces.

    Academic text (1995)
  • When the task performed is pleasant and the workplace lacks congestion, provides sufficient privacy, has windows, attractive views, good air circulation, and/or pleasant decor, the findings suggest that more arousable persons may respond with slightly greater enthusiasm and possibly improved performance.

    Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

excitable
vsarousable
14 4.1

Quick to become excited or nervous

is about being easily woken or made alert rather than emotional reaction

Antonyms

20 4.7

Not reacting to touch, sound, or commands

How Alert

wide awake
26 2.7
alert
137 3.5
awake
432 1.0
arousable
6.3
drowsy
22 2.7
asleep
1.0
unresponsive
20 4.7

Surface Forms

arousable positive

Morphology

arousable = arouse (transparent) = arouse + able

Regular derivation: '-able' attaches to 'arouse' to mean 'able to be awakened or excited'.

Etymology

Arousable comes from arouse ('to wake' or 'stir up') plus the ending -able meaning 'able to be', like readable means 'able to be read'. So someone who is arousable is 'able to be woken' or quickly made alert.