Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of exciting.
- noun The condition of being excited.
- noun Something that excites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of exciting; stimulation.
- noun The state of being excited or roused into action; agitation; sensation; commotion: as, the news caused great excitement; an excitement of the people.
- noun In medicine, a state of increased, and especially unduly increased, activity in the body or in any of its parts.
- noun That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation.
- noun That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
- noun (Physiol.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the state of being
excited (emotionally aroused). - noun countable something that
excites .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- noun the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
- noun something that agitates and arouses
- noun disturbance usually in protest
Etymologies
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Examples
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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_.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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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.
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Why not wander over to his blog and see what all the excitement is about?
Prodigal Mage final draft karenmiller 2009
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That's when all the excitement is there from the actors.
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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.
Pentagon official in charge of closing Guantanamo Bay quits 2009
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Sometimes the excitement is there early on, other times the excitement is not there.
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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.
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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!!
In Their Words: Industry Experts on Why Hunting Is In Decline Dave Hurteau 2008
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But right now my excitement is a Giant 0 and my hype for the movie is the same.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net 2008
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As we near 6pm, the excitement is almost tangible.
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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