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counterexcitement

noun

Etymology

From counter- + excitement.

  1. derived from excitement
  2. inherited from excitement
  3. prefixed as counterexcitement — “counter + excitement”

Definitions

  1. A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.

    • […] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]
    • As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy.

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