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ebullience

[ ih-buhl-yuh ns, ih-boo l- ]

/ ɪˈbʌl yəns, ɪˈbʊl- /

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noun

high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

a boiling over; overflow.

Words nearby ebullience

ebro, ebs, ebstein's anomaly, ebstein's sign, ebu, ebullience, ebullient, ebulliometer, ebullioscopy, ebullition, eburnation

Also e·bul·lien·cy.

Origin of ebullience

First recorded in 1740–50; ebulli(ent) + -ence

OTHER WORDS FROM ebullience

non·e·bul·lience, nounnon·e·bul·lien·cy, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for ebullience

It is this ebullience of youthful energy, this inexhaustible vitality, which is the admiration and despair of his contemporaries.
The Grand Old Man|Richard B. Cook
The spring was stirring everywhere, and Robert raced along, feeling in every vein a life, an ebullience akin to that of nature.
Robert Elsmere|Mrs. Humphry Ward
It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.
Old Familiar Faces|Theodore Watts-Dunton
Until a few years ago the State confined its ebullience in matters educational to the Board Schools.
The Lighter Side of School Life|Ian Hay

For Southeys well known rejoinder to this ebullience of schematism, see Life and Correspondence, ii.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge