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Definition of Excitement
Excitement

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.

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

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Excitement Quotations

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Ezra Pound

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

Excitement Translations

excitement in Afrikaans is opwinding
excitement in Dutch is opwinding
excitement in German is Aufregung {f}
excitement in Italian is eccitazione
excitement in Norwegian is spenning, opphisselse
excitement in Portuguese is excitamento
excitement in Swedish is upphetsning


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