enthusiasm

1. 1.

   a feeling of excitement

   Broaderfeeling

   Narrowergustoeagernessexuberancetechnophilia
2. 2.

   overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

   Synonymsexuberanceebullience

   Broaderliveliness

   Narrowerlyricismmadness
3. 3.

   a lively interest

   “enthusiasm for his program is growing”

   Broaderinterest

   NarrowerAnglomaniaballetomania

Other forms of enthusiasm

plural

enthusiasms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enthusiasm

What does enthusiasm mean?

enthusiasm means "a feeling of excitement". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enthusiasm?

enthusiasm has 5 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ɪnˈθuziˌæzəm/.

What is another word for enthusiasm?

Close synonyms include exuberance, ebullience. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enthusiasm a common word?

enthusiasm is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.