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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, agitation, commotion, eagerness, elation, enthusiasm, ferment, flurry, furor, incitement, provocation, stimulation, thrill, turmoil |
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| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exhilaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, excitement |
| Synonyms: | a rush, animation, cheerfulness, delight, elation, electrification, elevation, enlivenment, euphoria, exaltation, excitation, firing, gaiety, galvanization, gladness, gleefulness, head rush, high spirits, hilarity, inspiration, invigoration, joy, joyfulness, liveliness, mirth, quickening, sprightliness, stimulation, uplift, vitalization, vivacity, vivification |
| Antonyms: | agitation, depression, discouragement, unhappiness, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | hoopla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, brouhaha, bustle, buzz*, commotion, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, fever, fireworks*, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hysteria, passion, racket, rage, ruckus, rumpus, stir, thrill |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afflated, agacant, agonizing, appetizing, astir, boiling, boisterous, burning, chafing, clamorous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, demonstrative, distracted, ebullient, effervescent, electric, entheal, enthusiastic, estuous, excitable, excited, exciting, fanatical, febrile, fervid, feverish, fidgety, fidgin, fiery, fisselig, flaming, flushed, foaming, fuming, furious, fussy, glowing, gomphipothic, haggard, hasty, hot, hurried, hurry, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, imposing, impulsive, inextinguishable, intolerant, irrepressible, irritable, kedge, lost, mad, madcap, magazinish, mercurial, mettlesome, moody, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, piquant, provocative, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, restless, rouncy, seething, sensational, simmering, sirenic, skittish, sparkling, spicy, stanchless, startlish, swelling, tantalizing, telling, tempestuous, thrilling, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unquiet, unroarious, up, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, wild
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| Concept: | Feeling. |
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-nouns
feeling; suffering; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense., warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressment, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart (disposition); passion (state of excitability); ecstasy, ectasy (pleasure)., blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.
-verbs
feel; receive an impression; be impressed with; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling, respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of., bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide (be composed); experience (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand., swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited [more]; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath., impress (excite the feelings).
-adjectives
feeling; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic., impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
-adverbs
heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears.
-phrases
the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the
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