exuberance

1. 1.

   joyful enthusiasm

   Broaderenthusiasmjoy
2. 2.

   overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

   Synonymsenthusiasmebullience

   Broaderliveliness

   Narrowerlyricismmadness

Other forms of exuberance

plural

exuberances·

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 exuberance

What does exuberance mean?

exuberance means "joyful enthusiasm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exuberance?

exuberance has 4 syllables: ex-u-be-rance. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ɪɡˈzubɚəns/.

What is another word for exuberance?

Close synonyms include enthusiasm, 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 exuberance a common word?

exuberance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.