excitement

excitement

English

Etymology

excite +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭk-sītʹmənt, IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/

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Noun

excitement (countable and uncountable, plural excitements)

1. (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

   get caught up in the excitement

   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:

     By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.

2. (countable) something that excites.

Derived terms

• overexcitement

Translations

state of being excited

Azerbaijani: həyacan (az), təlatüm (az) Bengali: উত্তেজনা (bn) (uttejona) Bulgarian: възбуда (bg) f (vǎzbuda), вълнение (bg) n (vǎlnenie) Catalan: excitació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 興奮 (zh), 兴奋 (zh) (xīngfèn), 激動 (zh), 激动 (zh) (jīdòng) Czech: vzrušení n Danish: ophidselse Dutch: opgewondenheid (nl) f Finnish: jännitys (fi); innostus (fi) (positive); kiihtymys French: excitation (fr) f Galician: emoción (gl) f Georgian: აგზნება (agzneba), აღელვება (aɣelveba), აღტკინება (aɣṭḳineba) German: Aufregung (de) f, Begeisterung (de) f, Spannung (de) f, Erregung (de) f, Reiz (de) m, Aufgeregtheit f, Erregtheit f Hungarian: izgalom (hu) Irish: ardú m Italian: eccitamento (it) m, orgasmo (it) m, fregola (it) f Lao: ຄວາມຕື່ນເຕັ້ນ (khuām tư̄n ten) Latin: tumor m Luxembourgish: Opreegung f Macedonian: возбуда f (vozbuda) Norwegian: spenning (no) m, opphisselse m Ottoman Turkish: جنبش‎ (cümbüş) Polish: podekscytowanie n, ekscytacja (pl) f Portuguese: excitação (pt) f, empolgação (pt) f Romanian: excitare (ro) f, excitație (ro) f Russian: волне́ние (ru) n (volnénije) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: uzbuđénje (sh) n Spanish: entusiasmo (es) m Swahili: msisimuko (sw) Ukrainian: збудження n (zbudžennja)