Which of the following medical terms means a state of frenzied excitement or wild enthusiasm?

  • agitation
  • delirium
  • excitement
  • frenzy
  • madness
  • nervousness
  • panic
  • feverishness
  • freak out
  • hysterics
  • mirth
  • unreason

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How to use hysteria in a sentence

The Tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.

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There are numerous theories formulated to explain hysteria; some are ingenious, especially that of Janet, but none is convincing.

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  • ardor
  • ecstasy
  • enthusiasm
  • fervor
  • fever
  • frenzy
  • furor
  • fury
  • hallucination
  • hysteria
  • mania
  • passion
  • rage
  • raving
  • transport
  • zeal

  • action
  • activity
  • ado
  • adventure
  • agitation
  • animation
  • bother
  • buzz
  • commotion
  • confusion
  • discomposure
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • drama
  • elation
  • emotion
  • excitation
  • feeling
  • ferment
  • fever
  • flurry
  • frenzy
  • furor
  • fuss
  • heat
  • hubbub
  • hullabaloo
  • hurry
  • hysteria
  • impulse
  • instigation
  • intoxication
  • kicks
  • melodrama
  • motivation
  • motive
  • movement
  • passion
  • perturbation
  • provocation
  • rage
  • stimulation
  • stimulus
  • stir
  • thrill
  • titillation
  • to-do
  • trepidation
  • tumult
  • turmoil
  • urge
  • warmth
  • wildness

  • agitation
  • breakdown
  • crack-up
  • fear
  • hysteria
  • nervous breakdown
  • nervous prostration
  • shock
  • terror

  • aberration
  • agitation
  • blow
  • blow a fuse
  • blow one's cork
  • blow one's stack
  • blow one's top
  • bout
  • burst
  • conniption
  • convulsion
  • craze
  • delirium
  • derangement
  • distemper
  • distraction
  • dithers
  • excitement
  • ferment
  • fever
  • fit
  • flap
  • flip one's lid
  • free-for-all
  • furor
  • fury
  • fuss
  • hell broke loose
  • hysteria
  • insanity
  • lather
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • mania
  • outburst
  • paroxysm
  • passion
  • rage
  • row
  • ruckus
  • ruction
  • rumble
  • rumpus
  • seizure
  • spasm
  • stew
  • stir
  • to-do
  • transport
  • turmoil
  • wingding

  • ado
  • agitation
  • big scene
  • big stink
  • bustle
  • commotion
  • craze
  • enthusiasm
  • fad
  • ferment
  • flap
  • free-for-all
  • frenzy
  • fury
  • fuss
  • hell broke loose
  • hullabaloo
  • hysteria
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • mania
  • outburst
  • outcry
  • rage
  • row
  • ruckus
  • stir
  • to-do
  • tumult
  • uproar
  • whirl

  • action
  • activity
  • brouhaha
  • bustle
  • buzz
  • commotion
  • drama
  • elation
  • emotion
  • excitation
  • feeling
  • fever
  • fireworks
  • flurry
  • frenzy
  • furor
  • fuss
  • heat
  • hubbub
  • hullabaloo
  • hysteria
  • passion
  • racket
  • rage
  • ruckus
  • rumpus
  • stir
  • thrill

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  • ardor
  • devotion
  • eagerness
  • emotion
  • energy
  • feeling
  • fervor
  • frenzy
  • fury
  • intensity
  • interest
  • joy
  • passion
  • spirit
  • warmth
  • zeal
  • activity
  • avidity
  • conviction
  • craze
  • dash
  • earnestness
  • ecstasy
  • exhilaration
  • fad
  • fanaticism
  • fever
  • fieriness
  • fire
  • flame
  • flare
  • gaiety
  • glow
  • go
  • heat
  • hilarity
  • hobby
  • impetuosity
  • joyfulness
  • keenness
  • life
  • mania
  • mirth
  • nerve
  • oomph
  • orgasm
  • pep
  • rapture
  • relish
  • snap
  • transport
  • vehemence
  • verve
  • vim
  • vivacity
  • zest
  • ardency
  • red heat
  • zealousness
  • élan

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is another word for enthusiasm?

Enthusiasm is lively interest or eagerness.

Similar words are keenness and avidity, but their adjective forms are much more common: keen and avid (which are both synonyms for the adjective enthusiastic).

To show enthusiasm about something is often to show excitement about it.

In the context of enthusiasm for a topic, interest, or endeavor, even stronger words are passion and zeal. A more formal word is ardor.

Someone who is considered to have too much enthusiasm for something might be described as overenthusiastic or overzealous. Such a person’s enthusiasm might be called obsessed. In a more colloquial sense, you might be a bit much.

What is the opposite (antonym) of enthusiasm?

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antonyms for enthusiasm

  • apathy
  • calm
  • calmness
  • coolness
  • disinterest
  • inactivity
  • indifference
  • laziness
  • lethargy
  • peace
  • depression
  • dislike
  • dullness
  • frigidity
  • hate
  • hatred
  • lifelessness
  • sadness
  • unhappiness
  • aloofness
  • coldness
  • doubt
  • pessimism
  • weariness

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How to use enthusiasm in a sentence

Hadiqa Bashir, on an attempted marriage when she was 11When we chat, Bashir’s voice is filled with a nonchalant and childish enthusiasm, and yet there is something omniscient about the way she speaks.

THE TEENAGER BREAKING UP CHILD MARRIAGES, DOOR TO DOORPALLABI MUNSISEPTEMBER 2, 2020OZY

In Manila particularly, amidst the pealing of bells and strains of music, unfeigned enthusiasm and joy were everywhere evident.

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

  • alertness
  • avidity
  • briskness
  • cheerfulness
  • dispatch
  • eagerness
  • enthusiasm
  • expedition
  • fervor
  • gaiety
  • hilarity
  • joyousness
  • promptitude
  • quickness
  • readiness
  • speed
  • sprightliness
  • willingness
  • zeal

  • alertness
  • avidity
  • briskness
  • cheerfulness
  • dispatch
  • eagerness
  • enthusiasm
  • expedition
  • fervor
  • gaiety
  • hilarity
  • joyousness
  • promptitude
  • quickness
  • readiness
  • speed
  • sprightliness
  • willingness
  • zeal

  • appetite
  • ardor
  • aspiration
  • avidity
  • craving
  • desire
  • drive
  • eagerness
  • earnestness
  • emulation
  • energy
  • enterprise
  • enthusiasm
  • fire in belly
  • get up and go
  • hankering
  • hope
  • hunger
  • initiative
  • itch
  • keenness
  • longing
  • love
  • lust
  • moxie
  • passion
  • pretension
  • push
  • right stuff
  • spirit
  • striving
  • thirst
  • vigor
  • yearning
  • zeal

  • appetites
  • ardors
  • aspirations
  • avidities
  • cravings
  • desires
  • drives
  • eagerness
  • earnestness
  • emulations
  • energies
  • enterprises
  • enthusiasms
  • fire in bellies
  • get up and gos
  • hankerings
  • hopes
  • hunger
  • initiatives
  • itches
  • keenness
  • longings
  • loves
  • lust
  • moxies
  • passions
  • pretensions
  • pushes
  • right stuffs
  • spirits
  • strivings
  • thirsts
  • vigor
  • yearnings
  • zeal

  • action
  • ardor
  • bounce
  • brio
  • briskness
  • buoyancy
  • dash
  • dynamism
  • ebullience
  • elation
  • energy
  • enthusiasm
  • esprit
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • fervor
  • gaiety
  • high spirits
  • life
  • oomph
  • passion
  • pep
  • sparkle
  • spirit
  • sprightliness
  • verve
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vim
  • vitality
  • vivacity
  • zeal
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip
  • élan

  • avarice
  • cupidity
  • enthusiasm
  • fervor
  • greediness
  • intense desire
  • longing

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Which of the following terms means a state of frenzied excitement or wild enthusiasm?

excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer. Psychiatry. manic disorder.

Which term best describes the observable evidence of a person's feelings and emotions?

Emotionality is the observable behavioral and physiological component of emotion. It is a measure of a person's emotional reactivity to a stimulus.

Which term describes an involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences?

Repression is the unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts from your conscious mind.

What is the term that means characterized by depression and anguish?

Emotional distress is a state of emotional suffering . The term encompasses a wide range of symptoms, but its hallmarks are the symptoms of depression and anxiety. People can experience it at any time, and it is usually temporary.