enthusiasm
enthusiasm is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.
- 2.Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson.
- 3.Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affiance
- air
- airy
- anchor
- anticipation
- aspiration
- assumption
- assurance
- balm
- beam
- belief
- bit
- blue
- bottom
- box
- bright
- buoyancy
- cheer
- clear
- cloud
- confidence
- dawn
- day
- desire
- dream
- end
- expectation
- faith
- fervent
- flash
- fond
- gleam
- glimmer
- golden
- good
- grace
- heart
- heaven
- hope
- hopeful
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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