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enthusiasm 音標拼音: [ɪnθ'uzi ,æzəm] n. 熱情,熱誠,熱心 熱情,熱誠,熱心 enthusiasm n 1: a feeling of excitement 2: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [ synonym: { exuberance}, { enthusiasm}, { ebullience}] 3: a lively interest; " enthusiasm for his program is growing" Enthusiasm \ En* thu" si* asm\, n. [ Gr. ?, fr. ? to be inspired or possessed by the god, fr. ?, ?, inspired: cf. enthousiasme. See { Entheal}, { Theism}.] 1. Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse. [ 1913 Webster] Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. [ 1913 Webster] Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. -- Froude. [ 1913 Webster] Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. -- Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm. [ 1913 Webster] Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Emerson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. [ 1913 Webster] Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 103 Moby Thesaurus words for " enthusiasm": acquiescence, activity, agreeability, agreeableness, alacrity, amenability, amusement, animation, ardency, ardor, avidity, brio, briskness, bug, calenture, cathexis, cheerful consent, compliance, concern, concernment, consent, cooperativeness, craze, crazy fancy, curiosity, devotedness, devotion, diversion, docility, eagerness, earnest, earnestness, ebullience, elan, enthusiasticalness, excitement, exuberance, fad, fanaticism, fascination, favorable disposition, favorableness, fervency, fervor, fieriness, fire, forwardness, furor, furore, gameness, glow, goodwill, gusto, hobby, hurrah, impassionedness, impetuosity, impetus, infatuation, interest, joie de vivre, keenness, life, liveliness, lustiness, mania, manic- depressive psychosis, matter of interest, mettle, passion, pastime, perkiness, pertness, pliability, pliancy, promptness, rage, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, relish, responsiveness, right mood, robustness, special interest, spirit, spiritedness, tractability, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, vehemence, vivacity, warmth, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness, zing
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