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exuberance

UK/ɪɡˈzjuːbəɹəns/US/ɪɡˈzub(ə)rən(t)s/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,692 of 15,258neutral

Exuberance is lively and overflowing high spirits. Youthful exuberance.

It is warm rather than critical, though it often excuses something. Irrational exuberance is the phrase from finance for a market that has stopped calculating.

Mitch Barrie from Reno, NV, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of exuberance

  1. 1nounexuberanceLively and overflowing high spirits.C1

    “The exuberance of the first season carried them through the second.”

exuberance is a feeling.

Where it comes from

Latin exuberantia comes from exuberare, to overflow, from ex plus uber, fertile.

  1. Latin

    exuberantia — superabundance

  2. French

    exubérance

  3. English, today

    exuberance

Built from

  • exubero · Latin — to grow thickly, to abound

From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exubero (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex- + uber, which would have originally referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

exuberance in the wild

  • Irrational exuberance is a term used in 1996 by Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the U.S.

    Irrational exuberance (disambiguation)

  • Thus, in classical music, dumka came to mean "a type of instrumental music involving sudden changes from melancholy to exuberance".

    Dumka (musical genre)

  • Guided by the need to attract attention, Kiyonobu's style tended towards bold, colorful exuberance.

    Torii Kiyonobu I

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the exubero family

exuberanceexuberant

exuberance — used about once every 10,067 pages · #11,692 · point at the bar for the others