counterexcitement

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ excitement

Noun

counterexcitement (uncountable)

1. A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.
   • 1886, Edward Verrall Lucas, The Life of Frederick Lucas, volume 2, page 182:

     […] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]

   • 1872, George Ticknor Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, page 61:

     As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy.