Noun

(en noun)

The act of boiling.

*

A sudden emotional outburst.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/6/1 citation

, passage=This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner?: for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A random or sudden outburst (of activity).

* 1903 , (Jack London), (The Call of the Wild)

Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

* 1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), (Lolita)

«There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and take advantage of every blessed quirk in space and time to touch each other»

* 1983 , (John Fowles), Mantissa

Indeed in his excitement at this breakthrough he inadvertently dug his nails into the nurse's bottom, a gesture she misinterpreted, so that he had to suffer a paroxysm of breasts and loins in response.

An explosive event during a volcanic eruption.

A sudden recurrence of a disease.