Ebullience

Quick meaning: Ebullience is a noun meaning A boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.

Meaning

A boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) The quality of enthusiastic or lively expression of feelings and thoughts.

Example Sentences

[H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.

In the end, however, rebellion must exhaust itself. We grow weary of our paltry carnal transports, our ebulliences of defiance, our abortive expeditions to the frontiers of the respectable world.

The early days of the epidemic had been a time of ebullition or ebullience, pathologically speaking, full of movements and tics, impulsions and impetuosities, manias and crises, ardencies and appetencies.

In conversation, doubtless, you may observe him [Samuel Johnson], on occasion, fighting as if for victory;—and must pardon these ebulliences of a careless hour, which were not without temptation and provocation.

Word Forms

• ebulliences

Synonyms for ebullience

Depending on context, synonyms include exuberance, enthusiasm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enthusiasm, exuberance, ebullition, extuberance, effusion, extumescence.

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