A feeling of excitement.

Roget 897: love; fondness etc. adj.; liking; inclination etc. (desire) 865; regard, dilection^†, admiration, fancy.    affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness etc. adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence etc. 906; attachment.    yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry^†; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.    Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship etc. 902; amourette^†; free love.    maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy love.    attractiveness; popularity; favorite etc. 899.    lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret^†, beau, sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman^†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso^†, cavaliere servente [It], captive, cicisbeo^†; caro sposo [It].    inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa [It].    betrothed, affianced, fiancee.    flirt, coquette; amorette^†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone^†.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling; suffering etc. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance^†, experience, response; sympathy etc. (love) 897; impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense.    warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [Fr.], gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore^†, fanaticism; excitation of feeling etc. 824; fullness of the heart etc. (disposition) 820; passion etc. (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy etc. (pleasure) 827.    blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation etc. (irregular motion) 315; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.    ... show more

Roget 858: hope, hopes; desire etc. 865; fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith etc. (belief) 484; affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.    good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good prospect, bright prospect; clear sky.    assumption, presumption; anticipation etc. (expectation) 507.    hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace, aspiration.    [person who is hopeful] optimist, utopian, utopist^†.    castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne [Fr.], le pot aut lait [Fr.], Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar^†; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage etc. (fallacies of vision) 443; fond hope.    beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel.    anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff etc. (support) 215; heaven etc. 981.    ... show more

Dutch: begeestering, elan, enthousiasme, geestdrift, gloed, ijver, levendigheid, vuur
Polish: duch, entuzjazm, serce, zapał

Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval.

synonyms: ebullience, exuberance.

Dutch: uitgelatenheid, enthousiasme, uitbundigheid
Polish: entuzjastyczność

A lively interest.

Dutch: enthousiasme, geestdrift, geestdriftig, enthousiast
Polish: entuzjastyczność