excitement

English

Etymology

From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to 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), হুজুগ (bn) (hujug)
• Bulgarian: възбуда (bg) f (vǎzbuda), вълнение (bg) n (vǎlnenie)
• Catalan: excitació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興奮／兴奋 (zh) (xīngfèn), 激動／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), аза́рт (ru) m (azárt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: uzbuđénje (sh) n

• Spanish: entusiasmo (es) m
• Swahili: msisimuko (sw)
• Ukrainian: збудження n (zbudžennja)