Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of exciting.
- n. The condition of being excited.
- n. Something that excites: the dancing tigers and other circus excitements.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exciting; stimulation.
- n. The state of being excited or roused into action; agitation; sensation; commotion: as, the news caused great excitement; an excitement of the people.
- n. In medicine, a state of increased, and especially unduly increased, activity in the body or in any of its parts.
- n. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation.
- n. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
- n. A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
- n. something that agitates and arouses
- n. disturbance usually in protest
Examples
“For instance, an originally rheumatic pain experienced by a daughter when nursing her father becomes the symbol in memory of her painful psychic excitement, and this perhaps for several reasons, but chiefly because _its presence in consciousness almost exactly coincided with that excitement_.”
“Yet if you choose to prefer Coleridges explanation, no great harm will be done: since Coleridge, who may be presumed to have understood it, promptly goes on to deduce that, as the elements of metre owe their existence to a state of increased excitement, so the metre itself should be accompanied by the natural language of excitement. which is precisely where we found ourselves, save that where Coleridge uses the word excitement we used the word emotion.”
“Sometimes the excitement is there early on, other times the excitement is not there.”
“Why not wander over to his blog and see what all the excitement is about?”
“That's when all the excitement is there from the actors.”
“I really don't know what the excitement is all about; nobody has EVER escaped from a Federal Super-Max, and these guys are not the talent to be the first.”
“There are quite a few stories with lots more comments than any current post about Parazynski's summit journey, so I don't really think the excitement is there at all for space geeks.”
“Come on, in this land of plenty, the hunters are not starving; they don't need to kill four or more deer in a weekend, while leaving the potential hunter wondering what all the excitement is all about!!”
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“But right now my excitement is a Giant 0 and my hype for the movie is the same.”
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“As we near 6pm, the excitement is almost tangible.”
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result; product; instrument; means
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Here and Now
Words related to the mental state of "being in the present in the moment".
improvisation, nolens volens, extempore, autoschediastic, in medias res, willy-nilly, egersis, immanence, nunc pro tunc, spontaneity, observant, concentration and 55 more...
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