overarousal

English

Etymology

over- + arousal

Noun

overarousal (uncountable)

  1. excessive arousal
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      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.

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