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excitement - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: excitement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm; incitement
Synonyms: action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, disturbance, dither*, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do*, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, discomposure, excitation, kicks, melodrama, wildness
Antonyms: apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace
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Main Entry: excitement
Part of Speech: noun
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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
Main Entry: ado
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fuss
Synonyms: bother, confusion, excitement, flurry, hubbub, to-do*, travail, trouble, turmoil
Main Entry: animation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liveliness; activity
Synonyms: élan, action, ardor, bounce, buoyancy, dash, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, life, oomph*, passion, pep*, sparkle, spirit, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap*, zeal, zest, zing*, zip*, brio, briskness, dynamism, high spirits, sprightliness, vibrancy
Antonyms: discouragement, dullness, inactivity
Main Entry: bustle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: quick and busy activity
Synonyms: ado, agitation, clamor, commotion, do*, excitement, flurry, furor, fuss, haste, hubbub, hurly-burly*, hurry, pother, rumpus, stir, to-do*, tumult, turmoil, uproar, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind
Antonyms: laziness, relaxation
Main Entry: eagerness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm, anxiousness
Synonyms: alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, gusto, hunger, impatience, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing*, greediness, heartiness, impetuosity, intentness
Antonyms: apathy, disinterest
Main Entry: ebullience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm
Synonyms: agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, ferment, gaiety, liveliness, vitality, vivacity, zest, effusiveness, exuberancy, high spirits, high-spiritedness, vivaciousness
Antonyms: apathy, disinterest
Main Entry: elation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme happiness
Synonyms: bliss, buoyancy, buzz, charge, cloud nine*, delight, ecstasy, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, excitement, exhilaration, exultation, glee, high, high spirits, intoxication, jollies, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, kick*, kicks, rapture, stars in one's eyes, transport, triumph, up*, upper*
Antonyms: depression, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
Main Entry: fever
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of high temperature or agitation
Synonyms: delirium, ecstasy, excitement, ferment, fervor, fire, flush, frenzy, heat, intensity, passion, restlessness, turmoil, unrest, burning up, febrile disease, pyrexia, running a temperature, the shakes
Antonyms: chill, freeze, frigidity, coldness
Main Entry: flurry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: commotion, burst
Synonyms: ado, agitation, brouhaha, bustle, confusion, disturbance, excitement, ferment, flap*, flaw, fluster, flutter, furor, fuss, gust, haste, hurry, outbreak, pother, spell, spurt, squall, stir*, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, whirl, whirlwind
Antonyms: calm, calmness, quiet
Main Entry: frenzy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncontrolled state or situation
Synonyms: aberration, agitation, blow, blow a fuse, blow one's cork, blow one's stack, blow one's top, bout, burst, conniption, convulsion, craze, delirium, derangement, distemper, distraction, dithers, excitement, ferment, fever, fit, flap*, flip one's lid, free-for-all*, furor, fury, fuss, hell broke loose, hysteria, insanity, lather, lunacy, madness, mania, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rage, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, seizure, spasm, stew, stir, to-do*, transport, turmoil, wingding
Antonyms: calmness, peace, peacefulness
Main Entry: fuss
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disturbance, trouble
Synonyms: ado, agitation, altercation, argument, bother, broil*, bustle, commotion, complaint, confusion, controversy, difficulty, display, dispute, excitement, falling-out*, fight, flap, flurry, flutter, fret, furor, hassle, objection, palaver, perturbation, quarrel, row, ruckus, scene, squabble, stew*, stink*, stir, storm, to-do*, turmoil, unrest, upset, worry, bickering, kick-up, wingding
Antonyms: calm, peace
Main Entry: hysteria
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of extreme upset
Synonyms: agitation, delirium, excitement, frenzy, madness, mirth, nervousness, panic, feverishness, hysterics, unreason
Antonyms: calm, control, sereneness
Main Entry: impatience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inability, unwillingness to wait
Synonyms: agitation, anger, annoyance, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, expectancy, haste, heat*, intolerance, irritability, nervousness, rashness, restlessness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence, ants in pants, edginess, fretfulness, hastiness, impetuosity, irritableness, quick temper, restiveness, shortness, snappiness
Antonyms: control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, willingness, waiting
Main Entry: intensity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: passion, force
Synonyms: acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferocity, fervor, fire, force, fury, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, strain, strength, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, deepness, ferociousness, fervency, fierceness, forcefulness, high pitch, intenseness, sharpness, tenseness, weightiness, wildness
Antonyms: apathy, dullness, laziness, lethargy, moderation, inactivity
Main Entry: lust
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appetite, passion
Synonyms: avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness
Antonyms: chastity, disgust, disenchantment
Main Entry: paroxysm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seizure, spasm
Synonyms: agitation, anger, attack, convulsion, eruption, excitement, explosion, fit, flare-up*, frenzy, furor, fury, outbreak, outburst, passion, rage, violence, frothing, fuming, hysterics
Main Entry: shock
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complete surprise; blow
Synonyms: awe, breakdown, bump, clash, collapse, collision, concussion, confusion, consternation, crash, distress, disturbance, double whammy, earthquake, encounter, excitement, hysteria, impact, injury, jarring, jolt, percussion, prostration, ram, scare, start, stroke, stupefaction, stupor, trauma, turn, upset, whammy*, wreck, bombshell, eye-opener, traumatism
Antonyms: expectation
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