Intrigued vs Excitement - What's the difference?
intrigued | excitement |
(intrigue)
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
* E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
(countable) something that excites.
As a verb intrigued
is (intrigue).As a noun excitement is
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).intrigued
English
Verb
(head)intrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
References
* * English heteronyms ----excitement
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Noun
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .