The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word AROUSAL
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More clues leading to the result AROUSAL
- Beginning to miss revelry and excitement
- Topless drinking bout offers excitement
- American adult into a sort of oral stimulation
- Love powerful nation in a sport bringing excitement
- Being excited in lively party? Not at first
- Excitement, seeing America in a shortlist?
- Following unending drink the French raised excitement
- A character endlessly going around America, creating excitement
- Excitement as our rucking set back the French
- Awakening of love in Laura’s unexpected
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What does AROUSAL mean?
AROUSAL noun- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
- Sexual arousal.
- 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 readiness to respond.
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.