furor

[ fyoor-awr, -er ]

noun

1. a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.

   Synonyms: turmoil, commotion, uproar, frenzy

2. a prevailing fad, mania, or craze.
3. fury; rage; madness.

   Synonyms: turmoil, commotion, uproar, frenzy

Word History and Origins

Origin of furor¹

First recorded in 1425–75; from Latin: “a raging”; replacing late Middle English fureor, from Middle French

Example Sentences

YouTube issued its indefinite suspension the next week, as the furor over the first two was dying down.

From Washington Post

In the furor, Major League Baseball moved its summer All-Star Game out of the state.

From Washington Post

Yet Cuomo still occupies the governor’s office, and the furor over the scandals has quieted down.

From FiveThirtyEight

By the time most people woke up Monday morning on either side of the Atlantic, the furor over the Super League was in full bloom.

From Washington Post

Marketers are showing signs of strain but not panic as the initial furor over the delayed test of Google’s cookie alternative in Europe settles.

From Digiday

Imagine the rightful morning-after furor if a racial slight had been broadcast in primetime.

From The Daily Beast

It takes a transgression with real bite to inspire a furor of this intensity—Brangelina burn Jennifer!

From The Daily Beast

But as the furor subsides and the thunder dies, most or all of those girls probably will remain captives.

From The Daily Beast

But in the furor over the latest revelations, an even larger and more serious problem may be getting lost.

From The Daily Beast

Who would have expected a political furor to erupt around a single Nevada rancher?

From The Daily Beast

The furor it created was cut short by a fire, which destroyed the organ and damaged the tower of the church.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a perfect furor of intellectual excitement going through the house all the time.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence my love and even furor now for mathematics, from which in my youth I fled.

From Project Gutenberg

The revolutionary furor spread to the country towns, and for a whole week the Union flag practically disappeared from Maryland.

From Project Gutenberg

He has probably had another attack of furor epilepticus, and killed somebody while under its influence.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agitation
• commotion
• craze
• enthusiasm
• flap
• free-for-all
• frenzy
• fury
• fuss
• hysteria
• outburst
• outcry
• rage
• ruckus
• tumult
• uproar