The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebullition \Eb`ul*li"tion\, n. [F. ['e]bullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See Ebullient.]
A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an a["e]riform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]
A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of boiling. 2 A sudden emotional outburst.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ebullition".
Perhaps this very feeling, distinct from, and far beyond, all personal indignation, all sense of offended dignity, made the anger strangely brief--so brief, that when the other children, awed and startled, looked for some ebullition of it--lo!
His cruelty did not seem designed so much as the ebullitions of a peevish, snarling little temper, united to a mind incapable of conceiving the results of his acts, or understanding the pain he was Inflicting.
The baron at the same time offered one to Sir Ralph, with the look of a man in whom habitual hospitality and courtesy were struggling with the ebullitions of natural anger.
Through the long, ragged rift there poured in hellish ebullition a dark, ever-swelling mass of incognizable matter, frothing as with the venomous foam of a million serpents, hissing as with the yeast of fermenting wine, and putting forth here and there great sooty-looking bubbles that were large as pig-bladders.
I could only compare it to the hot vapor from an iron foundry, when the liquid iron is in a state of ebullition and runs over.