Etymology
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From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to excite + -ment.
Pronunciation
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excitement (countable and uncountable, plural excitements)
- (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.
- (countable) something that excites.
Derived terms
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Translations
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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)
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