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excitement

noun
/ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/

Etymology

From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to excite + -ment.

  1. derived from excitement
  2. inherited from excitement

Definitions

  1. The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

    • to get caught up in the excitement
    • By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.

  2. Something that excites.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excitement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01excitement02excited03enthusiasm04eagerness05desire06sexually07erotically08erotic

A definitional loop anchored at excitement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at excitement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA