excitement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=cite=ment
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

excitement, n. [Cf. OF. excitement, escitement.].

•  The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.  [1913 Webster]

  "The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle."  [1913 Webster]
•  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

excitement

action, activity, ado, aggravation, agitation, anger, animation, anxiety, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, breathless impatience, brouhaha, bustle, chafing, churn, commotion, conturbation, discomfort, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, eagerness, ebullience, ebullition, ecstasy, electrification, embroilment, enthusiasm, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, exhilaration, ferment, fermentation, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fire, fireworks, firing, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, fretfulness, fretting, fume, furor, fury, fuss, galvanization, gusto, haste, heart, heartiness, heat, hubbub, hurly-burly, impassionedness, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incitation, incitement, inflammation, infuriation, inquietude, instigation, irritation, jitters, jumpiness, lather, lathering up, liveliness, love, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, passion, passionateness, pep rally, pep talk, perturbation, provocation, rabble-rousing, relish, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, savor, seethe, seething, sexual desire, soul, spirit, steaming up, stew, stimulation, stimulus, stir, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, sweat, swirl, tense readiness, tension, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, unrest, upset, vehemence, verve, warmth, warmth of feeling, whipping up, working up, zeal

ROGET THESAURUS

excitement

Excitability

N excitability, impetuosity, vehemence, boisterousness, turbulence, impatience, intolerance, nonendurance, irritability, itching, wincing, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, fidgets, fidgetiness, agitation, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry, fluster, flutter, pother, stew, ferment, whirl, buck fever, hurry-skurry, thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement, flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame, fume, blood boiling, tumult, effervescence, ebullition, boiling over, whiff, gust, story, tempest, scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion, outbreak, outburst, agony, violence, fierceness, rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium, phrensy, frenzy, hysterics, intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger, fascination, infatuation, fanaticism, Quixotism, Quixotry, tete montee, excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state, high-strung, irritable, impatient, intolerant, feverish, febrile, hysterical, delirious, mad, moody, maggoty- headed, unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy, chafing, startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish, vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap, overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical, rabid, rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous, impulsive, impetuous, passionate, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting, Int, pish!, pshaw!, noli me tangere, filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd, maggiore fretta minore atto.

Resentment

N resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.