exuberance

1 joyful enthusiasm

2 overflowing with enthusiasm [syn: enthusiasm, ebullience]

English

Etymology

From etyl la exuberare; from ex], and uber, and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

Pronunciation

• a UK /ɛksˈju:.bɜː(ɹ).əns/|/ˈɛg.ʒu:.bɜː(ɹ).əns/, /Eks"ju:.b3:(r).@ns/|/"Eg.Zu:.b3:(r).@ns/

Noun

1. The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
2. An instance of exuberant behaviour.

Translations

abandon, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, animal spirits, animation, ardor, avalanche, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, buoyancy, capersomeness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, cloud of words, coltishness, copiousness, delectation, delight, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, ecstasy, ecstatics, effervescence, effusion, effusiveness, elan, elation, enchantment, esprit, exaltation, exhilaration, extravagance, fecundity, felicity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full measure, fullness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, generosity, generousness, gladness, glee, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, gusto, happiness, heartiness, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, life, liveliness, logorrhea, lots, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, palilogy, paradise, piss and vinegar, playfulness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pregnancy, prevalence, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, quantities, rampancy, rankness, rapture, ravishment, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, scads, seventh heaven, shower, skittishness, spate, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sunshine, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming womb, teemingness, tirade, transport, unalloyed happiness, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, wealth, zest, zestfulness, zip