overarousal en · NOUN
Etymology
From over- + arousal.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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: