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Answer for the clue "A state of heightened physiological activity ", 7 letters:
arousal

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Word definitions for arousal in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Arousal is the physiological and psychological state of being awake. It involves activation of the reticular activating system in the brainstem , the autonomic nervous system , and the endocrine system , leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of arousing or the state of being aroused. 2 Sexual arousal. 3 A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1827, "action of arousing, a being awakened" from arouse + -al (2). Sexual association is from c.1900.

Usage examples of arousal.

After eight long years of pain and fear, she now knew why her body turned traitor on her, beginning with an overwhelming arousal and ending with a bleak, almost agonizing pain before slowly diminishing.

His arousal was a potent force, electrifying and primal as she instinctively reached for him.

The good old hot blast of arousal was coming out of every pore of her.

She could hear her cunt sucking him back in on every upstroke, could smell the scent of their combined arousal as he impaled her with his long, thick, black cock.

Slowly up, down, up, down his tanned body, from neck to ankles and back again, until Lyssa could see him grit his teeth in a grimace of arousal that could not be assuaged.

As his levels of arousal build to a peak, he will experience the first of a series of pleasurable orgasmic contractions.

With titillating touches he provoked an insistent, anxious arousal in her body.

I began to appreciate the sheer sexual power that had taken possession of me, and with that appreciation came the full arousal that had been denied me.

Michel at first, but then he remembered that the cortex inhibits the lower centers of the brain, so that low cortical arousal allows the more uninhibited behavior of the extravert, while high cortical arousal is inhibitory and leads to introversion.

I timed the period to arousal once or twice more, then let Malva put her under a little more deeply.

And so, almost in tandem with Rebecca she began to masturbate, her labia slick with juices of her arousal and her mouth falling open to draw in huge breaths as her orgasm approached.

It is hoped to construct a rectal modulus of Reagan and the auto-disaster of maximized audience arousal.

After the battle he would be in a state of high sexual arousal, flooded by the lifeforce, and then he would force himself on whatever woman was available to him-white trash, Indian, or nigra, it made no difference to him.

She could hear the sound of her pussy suctioning him back in with every outstroke, could smell the scent of her own arousal.

Part pixie, part temptress, her pouty little mouth curved with enticing humor, the way her eyes sparkled with warmth and the remnants of arousal.