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ebullience

[ ih-buhl-yuhns, ih-bool- ]

noun

  1. high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
  2. a boiling over; overflow.


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Other Words From

  • none·bullience noun
  • none·bullien·cy noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ebullience1

First recorded in 1740–50; ebulli(ent) + -ence

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Example Sentences

That ebullience did not fade even as epidemiologists noted that cases were starting to rise in a few key states.

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He charmed classmates and teachers alike with his playful ebullience.

This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.

Until a few years ago the State confined its ebullience in matters educational to the Board Schools.

For Southeys well known rejoinder to this ebullience of schematism, see Life and Correspondence, ii.

It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.

The spring was stirring everywhere, and Robert raced along, feeling in every vein a life, an ebullience akin to that of nature.

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