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noun

Excitement n.

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.

That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. "The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle."

(Physiol.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.

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Etymology of 'Excitement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excitement" Quotes from Famous Books

... and which are the accidents of instability, rather than the effects of developed or even developing neuroses, can scarcely be classed as insanity; although it is true, and in an important sense, that these passing storms of excitement or spells of moody depression may—acting reflexly on the cerebral and nervous centers, as all mind-states and mind-movements react—exert a morbific influence and lay the physical bases of mental disease. The consideration most practical ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

... quite contented now and assured as to the future. I foreknew the future would be tranquil and lacking in any particular excitement, and I had already ceded, in anticipation, the last tittle of mastery over my own actions; but Bettie would keep me to the mark, would wring—not painlessly perhaps—from Robert Townsend the very best ...

— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

... porter, and at once showed his excitement. "Well, one came here, with a written order for your suit-case, and I ...

— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer

... had married a fiddler, who travelled constantly, playing at hotels and inns, all through "far Russia." Having no children, she ought to have spent her days in fasting and praying and lamenting. Instead of this, she accompanied her husband on his travels, and even had a heart to enjoy the excitement and variety of their restless life. I should be the last to blame my great-aunt, for the irregularity of her conduct afforded my grandfather the opening for his career, the fruits of which made my childhood so pleasant. For several years my grandfather travelled in ...

— The Promised Land • Mary Antin

... he had expected to marry when he was arrested and imprisoned. She did not go back to his childish memories. He had met her when first youth had passed, and yet, somehow, the savor of the wintergreen leaves brought her face before him. It is strange how the excitement of one sense will sometimes act as stimulant for the awakening of another. Now the sense of taste brought into full activity that of sight. He saw the woman just as she had looked when he had last seen her. She had ...

— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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