ebullience
Americannoun
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high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
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a boiling over; overflow.
Other Word Forms
- nonebullience noun
- nonebulliency noun
Etymology
Origin of ebullience
First recorded in 1740–50; ebulli(ent) + -ence
Example Sentences
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But no matter the score, they are all endowed with ebullience, charm and color under his baton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
It’s the immigrants — the immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela and Mexico and Cuba, who bring ebullience and evident emotion to the game…
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025
Live performance is therefore a precious experience: the collective gasp, the pin-drop silence, the ebullience of shared laughter and applause.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2023
But medical breakthroughs are rarely straightforward, and the ebullience surrounding GLP-1 agonists is tinged with uncertainty and even some foreboding.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023
The applause, perhaps, lacked something of the vigor, the generosity and celebratory ebullience it had in my previous performance.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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