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117 words match “EXCITEMENT”

SANG-FROID n.
Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness. Burke.
SEDITION n.
ate, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of se…
SOLICITATION n.
Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses. Locke.
STEW n.
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.]
STILL v.
To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions. Shak. Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me. Hawthorne.
SUSCEPTIBILITY n.
Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness. Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. Sir W. Thomson.
TAKING n.
Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.] What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket! Shak.
TENSION n.
Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
THIRST n.
a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with t…
THRILL n.
A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.
THRILLING a.
Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.
TUMULT n.
Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
TWITTERING n.
A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.
UP adv.
nding; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. Matt. xiii. 6. T…
VERVE n.
Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
WAVE n.
Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete…
WILD a.
Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or as, a wild look.
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