excitement

excitement
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ considerable, extreme, great, high, intense, tremendous
▪ breathless, feverish, giddy (esp. AmE), heady, wild
▪ genuine, pure, real, sheer
▪

For sheer excitement, white-water rafting is hard to beat.

▪ initial
▪ sudden
▪ growing, heightened, mounting
▪ added, further
▪ suppressed
▪ nervous
▪ pleasurable
▪ strange
▪ childlike
▪

I step lightly, with childlike excitement.

▪ youthful
▪ intellectual, physical, political, sexual
… OF EXCITEMENT
▪ buzz, flurry, flush, frisson (esp. BrE), ripple, rush, surge
▪

She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song.

▪ element
▪ level
VERB + EXCITEMENT
▪ be bubbling with, be filled with, be flushed with, be giddy with, be tingling with, be trembling with, feel
▪

She was filled with excitement and apprehension.

▪

Her face was flushed with excitement.

▪ cause, create, generate
▪

The news caused tremendous excitement among scientists.

▪ bring
▪

My visits always brought great excitement to my family.

▪ conceal, contain, control, hide, suppress
▪

He couldn't suppress the excitement in his voice.

▪ add
▪

The element of risk just adds excitement.

EXCITEMENT + VERB
▪ build up, grow, mount, rise
▪

The tension and excitement built up gradually all day.

▪ bubble, bubble up
▪

Excitement was bubbling up inside her.

▪ course through sb/sth, run through sb/sth
▪

She could feel the excitement coursing through her veins.

▪ fill sb/sth
▪

Both fear and excitement filled her mind.

▪ die down, wear off
PREPOSITION
▪ in excitement
▪

She clapped her hands in excitement.

▪ with excitement
▪

You'll jump up from your seat with excitement.

▪ excitement among
▪

The news has caused great excitement among scientists.

▪ excitement at
▪

her excitement at the prospect of a new job

▪ excitement of
▪

the excitement of meeting new people

PHRASES
▪ an air of excitement
▪

There was an air of excitement about the place.

▪ a feeling of excitement, a sense of excitement
▪ a state of excitement
▪ a lack of excitement

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