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Definition: Exuberance |
ExuberanceNoun1. Joyful enthusiasm. 2. Overflowing with enthusiasm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exuberance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ExuberanceSynonyms: ebullience (n), enthusiasm (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages; periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness. |
Redundancy | Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exuberance |
| English words defined with "exuberance": Exuberancy ♦ farcical ♦ ludicrous ♦ Overflux ♦ Rampancy, ridiculous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own bombasity (Amar Akbar Anthony; writing credit: J.M. Desai; Kader Khan) | |
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| "Exuberance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Exuberance" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.28% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "exuberance": over-exuberance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
irrational exuberance | 21 |
exuberance | 6 |
exuberance greenspan irrational | 3 |
biological exuberance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "exuberance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tepri (excess, exuberancy, glut, overplus, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit), bollëk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, exuberancy, flowing, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, richness, store, superfluity, wealth). (various references) | |
Arabic | وفرة (abundance, affluence, amplitude, generosity, glut, liberality, opulence, opulent, plenty, profusion, pullulation, redundance, redundancy, richness, superfluity, wealth), غزارة (abundance, grubbiness, massiveness, opulence, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, wealth), ضخامة (bigness, enormity, generosity, greatness, immenseness, immensity, largeness, massiveness, monstrosity, size, swelling, vastness), إمتلاء بالحيوية (succulence). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разкош (luxury, opulence, pomp, pomposity, splendor, splendour, state, sumptuousness), жизнерадост (animation, buoyancy, ebullience, ebulliency, geniality), повишено настроение (elation), плодородие (fecundity, fertility, fruitiness, heart, productiveness, productivity), изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, raft, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming), изблик (access, accession, burst, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, flare, flash, flood, flush, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, riot, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Czech | přemíra (excess, exuberancy, surfeit), hojnost (abundance, affluence, ampleness, exuberancy, galore, lashings, legion, opulence, plenitude, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, superfluity). (various references) | |
Dutch | beurseuforie (stock exchange exuberance). (various references) | |
French | exubérance. (various references) | |
German | ausgelassenheit (boisterousness, frolic, jollity, light-headedness, liveliness, playfulness). (various references) | |
Greek | μεγάλη αφθονία, ζωντάνια (liveliness), διαχυτικότητα (effusion, gushiness, joviality). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצב רוח מרומם (good humor, high spirits, lift), שפע (abundance, affluence, affluency, excess, glut, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, surfeit, wealth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | terjengősség (exuberancy, redundance, redundancy), túláradás (overflowing), kinövés (excrescence, outgrowth), gazdagság (opulence, exuberancy, profusion, riches, superabundance), bujaság (concupiscence, exuberancy, lewdness, wantonness), buja termékenység (exuberancy), bõvelkedés (exuberancy, overabundance), bõség (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, exuberancy, fill, galore, glut, opulence, plenty, superabundance, width), bővelkedés (abundance, exuberancy). (various references) | |
Italian | esuberanza (exuberancy, luxuriance, rankness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 充溢 (abundance, overflow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じゅういつ (abundance, overflow). (various references) | |
Norwegian | overflod (abundance), frodighet, begeistring (enthusiasm). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exuberanceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | exuberância (exuberancy, lushness, lustiness, luxuriance, luxuriation, overgrowth, profusion). (various references) | |
Romanian | exuberanţã (ebullience, effusiveness, exuberancy, rampancy, rankness, richness), belşug (abundance, affluence, amplitude, copiousness, exuberancy, flow, galore, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, riches, store, thriving, wealth), abundenţã (abundance, ampleness, array, diffuseness, exuberancy, flow, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, richness, rifeness). (various references) | |
Russian | богатство (wealth, exuberancy, mammon, opulence, riches), избыток (exuberancy, superabundance, superfluity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veselost (cheerfulness, exuberancy, facetiousness, happiness, jocosity, jollity, joviality, joy, lightheartedness, mirth, pleasantry), izobilje (abundance, exuberancy, opulence, plenty, superabundance), bujnost (ampleness, exuberancy, luxuriance, verdure). (various references) | |
Spanish | exuberancia (ebullience, ebulliency, exuberancy, lushness, luxuriance, rankness). (various references) | |
Swedish | överflöd (abundance, opulence, plenitude). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเบิกบาน (radiance), ความอุดมสมบูรณ์ (luxuriance). (various references) | |
Turkish | taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effusion, excess, extravagance, exuberancy, flush, frenzy, furor, furore, gush, intemperance, overflowing, rampancy, transport), laf kalabalığı (exuberancy, flux of words, redundance, redundancy, spiel, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity), coşkunluk (abundance, colour, cyclone, ebullience, ebulliency, ecstasy, effusion, effusiveness, enthusiasm, exaltation, exuberancy, fervor, fervour, flush, frenzy, vehemence, vibrancy), coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, excitement, exuberancy, furor, furore, glow, gush, rave, rhapsody, spring tide, temperament, yeast), bolluk (abundance, plenty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зайвина (exuberancy, over, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, plethora, satiety), плідність (exuberancy, prolificacy), достаток (abundance, affluence, competence, competency, exuberancy, fertileness, fertility, fullness, fulness, galore, glut, opulence, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, profusion, store, sufficiency, wealth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính sum sê, tính hồ hởi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pinguedine, pinguedinem, pinguedinis, pinguidine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exuberance": exuberances. (additional references) | |
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"Exuberance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exhuberance, exuberace, exuberancce, exuberence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exuberance" (pronounced igzuw"beruns) |
| 6 | -uw" b er u n s | protuberance. |
| 4 | -er u n s | belligerence, conference, deference, deliverance, difference, endurance, furtherance, ignorance, indifference, inference, intolerance, irreverence, preference, reference, reverence, severance, temperance, tolerance, utterance. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, defiance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-n-r-u-x" | |
-3 letters: exurban, unbrace. | |
-4 letters: careen, recane, rubace, unbear, urbane. | |
-5 letters: acerb, beaux, brace, buran, caber, caner, carex, crane, cuber, enure, exurb, nacre, rance, ranee, rebec, unbar, urban, xebec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-n-r-u-x" | |
+1 letter: exuberances. | |
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