excitement

excitement
    n 1: the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly
         conceal his excitement when she agreed" [syn:
         {exhilaration}, {excitement}]
    2: the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his
       face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he
       tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme
       inflammation" [syn: {excitement}, {excitation},
       {inflammation}, {fervor}, {fervour}]
    3: something that agitates and arouses; "he looked forward to
       the excitements of the day" [syn: {excitation}, {excitement}]
    4: disturbance usually in protest [syn: {agitation},
       {excitement}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}, {hullabaloo}]
    

Excitement \Ex*cite"ment\n. [Cf. OF. excitement, escitement.]
   1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into
      action, or of having increased action; impulsion;
      agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
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   2. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or
      induces action; a motive.
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            The cares and excitements of a season of transition
            and struggle.                         --Talfowrd.
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   3. (Physiol.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity
      in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
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148 Moby Thesaurus words for "excitement":
      action, activity, ado, aggravation, agitation, anger, animation,
      anxiety, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, bluster, bobbery, boil,
      boiling, breathless impatience, brouhaha, bustle, chafing, churn,
      commotion, conturbation, discomfort, discomposure, disorder,
      disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, eagerness, ebullience,
      ebullition, ecstasy, electrification, embroilment, enthusiasm,
      exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, exhilaration, ferment,
      fermentation, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fever,
      feverishness, fidgets, fire, fireworks, firing, flap, flurry,
      fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, fretfulness, fretting,
      fume, furor, fury, fuss, galvanization, gusto, haste, heart,
      heartiness, heat, hubbub, hurly-burly, impassionedness, impatience,
      impatientness, impetuousness, incitation, incitement, inflammation,
      infuriation, inquietude, instigation, irritation, jitters,
      jumpiness, lather, lathering up, liveliness, love, maelstrom,
      malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, passion,
      passionateness, pep rally, pep talk, perturbation, provocation,
      rabble-rousing, relish, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row,
      savor, seethe, seething, sexual desire, soul, spirit, steaming up,
      stew, stimulation, stimulus, stir, stirring, stirring up,
      stirring-up, sweat, swirl, tense readiness, tension, to-do,
      trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
      turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unpatientness,
      unquietness, unrest, upset, vehemence, verve, warmth,
      warmth of feeling, whipping up, working up, zeal