| Main Entry: | excitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, agitation, commotion, eagerness, elation, enthusiasm, ferment, flurry, furor, incitement, provocation, stimulation, thrill, turmoil |
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness |
Antonyms: |
apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
| Main Entry: | exhilaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, excitement |
Synonyms: |
a rush, animation, cheerfulness, delight, elation, electrification, elevation, enlivenment, euphoria, exaltation, excitation, firing, gaiety, galvanization, gladness, gleefulness, head rush, high spirits, hilarity, inspiration, invigoration, joy, joyfulness, liveliness, mirth, quickening, sprightliness, stimulation, uplift, vitalization, vivacity, vivification |
Antonyms: |
agitation, depression, discouragement, unhappiness, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
Synonyms: |
activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
Antonyms: |
insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | hoopla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, brouhaha, bustle, buzz*, commotion, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, fever, fireworks*, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hysteria, passion, racket, rage, ruckus, rumpus, stir, thrill |
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
hurry, afflated, agacant, agonizing, appetizing, astir, boiling, boisterous, burning, chafing, clamorous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, demonstrative, distracted, ebullient, effervescent, electric, entheal, enthusiastic, estuous, excitable, excited, exciting, fanatical, febrile, fervid, feverish, fidgety, fidgin, fiery, fisselig, flaming, flushed, foaming, fuming, furious, fussy, glowing, gomphipothic, haggard, hasty, hot, hurried, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, imposing, impulsive, inextinguishable, intolerant, irrepressible, irritable, kedge, lost, mad, madcap, magazinish, mercurial, mettlesome, moody, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, piquant, provocative, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, restless, rouncy, seething, sensational, simmering, sirenic, skittish, sparkling, spicy, stanchless, startlish, swelling, tantalizing, telling, tempestuous, thrilling, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unquiet, unroarious, up, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, wild
|