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EBULLIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ebullience mean?
• EBULLIENCE (noun)
The noun EBULLIENCE has 1 sense:
1. overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
Familiarity information: EBULLIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ebullience; enthusiasm; exuberance
Hypernyms ("ebullience" is a kind of...):
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ebullience"):
lyricism (unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm)
madness; rabidity; rabidness (unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm)
Derivation:
ebullient (joyously unrestrained)
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