ebullience
Americannoun
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high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
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a boiling over; overflow.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ebullience
First recorded in 1740–50; ebulli(ent) + -ence
Explanation
Bubbly, loud, and enthusiastic, ebullience means "the quality of being cheerful and full of energy." Take a room full of seven-year-olds and add a bunch of adorable puppies, and you'll end up with ebullience. The Latin word ebullientem, which ebullience comes from, literally means "boiling over." When you see ebullience, you know it; it's not simply happiness or enjoyment, but those emotions bubbling up and overflowing.
Vocabulary lists containing ebullience
Lord of the Flies
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Grade 11, List 4
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Novel Study: Lord of the Flies, Chapters 1–4
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Hammond is ebullience and warmth personified but her co-presenter, the erstwhile Mighty Boosh comedian Fielding, still looks a bit lost, as if he has wandered in from the wrong set.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper’s Beadle Bamford, the judge’s henchman, has a malicious ebullience all his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
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
From the crafty ebullience of a rakshasa with a new idea into a gossipy Malayali with a scandal to spread.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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