overarousal
nounEtymology From over- + arousal.
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excessive arousal
- In every such patient I found a sort of triad or tryptich: profoundly slow activity in the absence of medication, very excited and often convulsive activity with overarousal on medication, and between these, so to speak, a very attenuated, narrow band, showing relatively normal activities between the abnormals.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- Antonyms
- underarousal