ebullience

[ ih-buhl-yuhns, ih-bool- ]

/ ɪˈbʌl yəns, ɪˈbʊl- /

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noun

high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

a boiling over; overflow.

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Also e·bul·lien·cy .

Origin of ebullience

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

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

That ebullience did not fade even as epidemiologists noted that cases were starting to rise in a few key states.
India's COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn't Have to Be This Way|Naina Bajekal|April 29, 2021|Time
He charmed classmates and teachers alike with his playful ebullience.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers|by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman|March 8, 2021|ProPublica
This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.
Twelve Men|Theodore Dreiser
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
It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.
Old Familiar Faces|Theodore Watts-Dunton
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