Excitement vs Exclamation - What's the difference?
excitement | exclamation |
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
* E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
(countable) something that excites.
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; – also called an exclamation point.
As nouns the difference between excitement and exclamation
is that excitement is the state of being excited (emotionally aroused) while exclamation is a loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.excitement
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Noun
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
