excitement

1. 1.

   the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

   “he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed”

   Synonymsexhilaration

   Broaderjoy

   Narrowerbangintoxicationtitillation
2. 2.

   the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

   “his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled”

   “he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation”

   Synonymsexcitationinflammationfervorfervour

   Broaderemotional arousal

   Narrowerfever pitchsensation
3. 3.

   something that agitates and arouses

   “he looked forward to the excitements of the day”

   Synonymsexcitation

   Broaderarousal

   Narrowerhair-raiserthrill
4. 4.

   disturbance usually in protest

   Synonymsagitationturmoilupheavalhullabaloo

   Broaderdisturbance

Other forms of excitement

plural

excitements·

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 excitement

What does excitement mean?

excitement means "the feeling of lively and cheerful joy". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excitement?

excitement has 3 syllables: ex-cite-ment. The stress falls on "cite". In IPA it is /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/.

What is another word for excitement?

Close synonyms include exhilaration, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour. 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 excitement a common word?

excitement 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.

What rhymes with excitement?

1 word rhymes with excitement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.