Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Zestful enthusiasm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A boiling over; a bursting forth; overflow.
Wiktionary
- n. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A boiling up or over; effervescence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
Examples
“While such potential ebullience is a concern to Inter their worldlywise squad usually prevails.”
The Guardian: Inter's Rafael Benítez uses 'milk' analogy to turn sour on Liverpool
“Tigger-like ebullience" is my fave new phrase, combining the vocabulary of a dandy with the inculturation of a nine-year-old.”
“And any blogger who uses the word ebullience is worthy of a nomination in my book.”
“It was shortly before July Fourth and we'd never met, so her ebullience was a happy surprise.”
“Yet beneath all the ebullience was a combination of determination and psychological acuity, as well as the discipline of a trained physicist and political skills honed in the years he had spent rising to the top of the Socialist Party and serving in several ministries of the Spanish government, including that of foreign affairs.”
“His ebullience was a far cry from last week, when the quiet but stubborn premier threatened to dissolve parliament and call new elections if PASOK fared badly.”
“The ebullience is a fiery joy, especially as the winter sun descends.”
“This head of state doesn't seem to have any trouble crushing "ebullience" now.”
The Guardian: Laurent Gbagbo: Democratic martyr turned dictator | David Smith
“So with a kind of ebullience, based on fattened hope resting on the pills, she undid the package and read the directions, assuring him the while of her gratitude and that she would not forget how good he had been to her in this instance.”
“Trung (26), who founded a pro-democracy youth group, told the court he had made mistakes due to "ebullience" and inexperience and admitted that actions he had taken violated the law.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ebullience’.
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 151 more...
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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GRE Words
orotund, mendacious, inimical, foment, contumacious, abrogate, arrogate, syncretism, abate, abdication, aberration, abeyance and 123 more...
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To Learn
enervate, redolent, distaff, approbation, arrogate, bonhomie, palliate, calumny, panoply, contumacious, edify, dyspeptic and 188 more...
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Prep my Lang
Collection of my wordnik word search
equivocal, anomaly, proliferate, assimilate, obscure, aberration, parse, circumnavigate, circumvent, decipher, prose, impasse and 94 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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beautiful words
words that sound pretty and have a pretty meaning
bucolic, dalliance, dulcet, ebullience, effervescent, efflorescence, eloquence, felicity, fetching
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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List 1
erudite, iniquitous, acrimonious, implacable, fractious, irascible, debonair, churlish, brusque, sycophantic, phlegmatic, indomitable and 108 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
(Donald Culross) Mar 23, 2008