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Hype vs Excitement - What's the difference?

hype | excitement |

As nouns the difference between hype and excitement

is that hype is promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims while excitement is the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

As a verb hype

is to promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

hype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims.
    • After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

    Verb

    (hyp)
  • To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
    • They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.

    excitement

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
  • * E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
    • By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
  • (countable) something that excites.