exhilaration
I ski for the excitement, but I'm also always aware of the risks.
Minelli is a born performer - she loves the excitement and she loves the adulation.
The children were jumping up and down with excitement.孩子们兴奋地跳来跳去。
A buzz of excitement went through the audience as he came on stage.
The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension.刚开始一份新工作时兴奋中总是掺杂着些许担忧。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
alacrity
animation
ardour
avidity
boosterism
commotion
frenzy
friskiness
frisson
frolic
get a buzz out of something/doing something
get-up-and-go
hubbub
pep
perkiness
physicality
piquancy
pizzazz
whirl
zealousness

Examples of excitement

excitement
The early excitement for this work has been replaced by considerably more caution.
There was more ideological excitement to be gained by fighting for the defence of organized religion against its enemies.
So, too, was the sheer excitement of the game.
Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover-moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality-that they never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling.
In 1936, for example, there was much excitement in the profession when a number of public works were to be contested through competitions.
Quivering from excitement or nervousness is easily transferable through fingertips, and received by the listener as an expression, even if artificial, of that particular state.
The emergence of the discipline of developmental psychopathology, like other beginnings and births, was heralded with considerable excitement and visions of future accomplishment.
His excitement about indefinitely extending businesses moreover finds its match in old-fashioned prejudice against turning landed wealth into circulating paper.
Indeed, listening to the work's recording is a rather tedious task, entirely lacking the excitement that the composer was so proud about.
Bands created a lively atmosphere while public speeches generated excitement: these were 'civilized' mass meetings for boycott aims under the guise of memorial service.
Infants begin to smile, show excitement when presented with familiar faces, and display what is considered to be sadness when positive stimulus events are withdrawn.
Give kids the visions, ideas, excitement, sadness, wonder, and joy.
The remaining prisoners respond to their fellow inmate's words in a choral passage of mounting excitement.
While a bit of syncretism might be useful from a methodological point of view, in a theoretical discussion it takes the excitement away.
Thus, the initial excitement surrounding the birth of the new discipline needs to now be accompanied by some self-reflection on the part of its adherents.
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