excitement

English

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#EXCITEMENTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#EXCITEMENT excitement, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#EXCITEMENT excitement, equivalent to excite +‎ -mentCategory:English terms suffixed with -ment#EXCITEMENT.

Pronunciation

Noun

excitement (countable and uncountable, plural excitements)Category:English lemmas#EXCITEMENTCategory:English nouns#EXCITEMENTCategory:English uncountable nouns#EXCITEMENTCategory:English countable nouns#EXCITEMENTCategory:English countable nouns#EXCITEMENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EXCITEMENTCategory:Pages with entries#EXCITEMENTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#EXCITEMENT

  1. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#EXCITEMENT) The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:
      By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.
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    • 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
      In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
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  2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#EXCITEMENT) Something that excites.

Derived terms

Translations

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