ebullience

noun

: the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings : exuberance

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Mamdani clearly knows how to communicate ebullience, a talent that is all the more potent for its scarcity in current political life. Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025 Off-camera, Rosenthal’s characteristic ebullience is more cerebral than clownish. Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025 Tracking Wall Street's ebullience, Japan's Nikkei 225 hit an all-time high Thursday as Softbank rose more than 10%. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025 Victorious trainer Mott savored that burst of excellence, along with his first-ever Travers win, with what was for the reserved South Dakotan a measure of ebullience. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ebullience

Word History

First Known Use

1749, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ebullience was in 1749

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“Ebullience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ebullience. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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