excitement 
ex·cite·ment (ek sīt′mənt, ik-)
noun
- an exciting or being excited; agitation
- something that excites
Etymology: ME < OFr
excitement
n.
Converse of object
- convey: Her second, " The Dancer " , was full of rich imagery conveying the excitement of the dance.
- recreate: The Laser pod is hoping to recreate the same excitement, but this time for the 21st Century.
- relive: Phase 1 website If you'd like to relive the excitement of the Phase 1 website you can see it here.
- generate: There can be a great deal of excitement generated in the shared reading sessions.
- suppress: Again in the utter silence I heard that thin, sibilant note which spoke of intense suppressed excitement.
- capture: With Liberty, it's easy to capture the excitement of live broadcast events.
Preposition: at
- prospect: I'm going to see the film tonight and I'm bursting with excitement at the prospect.
Adjective modifier
- breathless: This one is full of breathless excitement for the possibilities of the mind.
- feverish: Then she smiled, and the poplar felt his heart give a bound of feverish excitement.
- sheer: It was a moment I will never forget - watching the sheer excitement on their little faces.
- intense: Merz herself has spoken of an intense excitement running through these threads.
- nervous: At the start of the season there was a nervous excitement at Anfield.
- added: You meet the same faces with the added excitement of meeting possibly new ones.
Modifies a noun
- yesterday: Mark, Sheffield Many thanks for all your efforts, the parcel arrived on Saturday and was opened with great excitement yesterday.
Preposition: in
- air: There is a sense of anticipation and excitement in the air, tinged with a faint feeling of panic!
Preposition: of
- discovery: I remember this book filling me with both the joy of inquiry and the excitement of discovery.
- chase: The problem must be tackled and the Police must be very careful they are not caught up in the excitement of these chases.
- moment: The excitement of the moment had made her lose track of time.
- occasion: The suspense adds to the excitement of the occasion, I guess.
- reading: The excitement of reading Sinclair is that his particular literary form is not a known quantity.
'Cricket,'said Raffles,'like everything else, is a good enough sport until you discover a better. As a source of excitement it isn't in it with other things you wot of Bunny, and theinvoluntarycomparison becomes a bore. What's the satisfaction of taking a man's wicket when you want his spoons?' 414
A connoisseur of tame excitement.
'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
The jazz band can be used for artificial excitement and aphrodisiac purposes, but not for spreading eternal truths.
Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
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