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ebullience
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, from Latin ebullientem (nominative ebulliens ) "a boiling, a bursting forth, overflow," present participle of ebullire "to boil over" (see ebullient ). Related: Ebulliency (1670s), ebullition (c.1400).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. overflowing with enthusiasm [syn: exuberance , enthusiasm ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebullience \E*bul"lience\ (?; 106), Ebulliency \E*bul"lien*cy\, n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. --Cudworth.
Usage examples of ebullience.
The decor was stylish to a point where it transcended style and entered the realms of perspicuous harmony, shunning grandiloquent ornamentation in favour of a visual concinnity, garnered from aesthetic principles, which combined the austerity of Bauhaus and ebullience of Burges14 into an eclectic mix before stripping them down to their fundamental essentials, to create an effect which was almost aphoristic, in that it could be experienced but never completely expressed.
I reflected upon the variety of vegetables and animals, of the very real possibility of a potto, and soon recovered my native ebullience.
We are descending with dancing footsteps towards a happy-go-lucky ebullience that is much enjoyed by the Palermitans of our time, or rather the time of our sons: an ebullience that has all the appearance of action since it contains within it what I dare to call perpetual motion.
Fifty years ago the somber, overwrought architecture of the Later Expansion period had been extremely fashionable, an overreaction, perhaps, to the excessive ebullience of the Early Exploration period that preceded it.
I also underlined my hope of future co-operation by dedicating the novel to Nobelist Andrei Sakharov (then still in exile) and Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov - who, when I told him in 'Star Village' that the ship would be named after him, exclaimed, with typical ebullience, 'Then it will be a good ship!
It seemed peculiar to me that Twink was always superhyped on the day following one of her bad ones, but it was obvious that today's ebullience fit the pattern.