excitation

Roget category 824

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.1. Affections in general
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#824. Excitation

noun

excitation of feeling — mental excitement — suscitation^†, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection — animation, agitation, perturbation — subjugation, fascination, intoxication — enravishment^† — entrancement — pressure, tension, high pressure.
unction, impressiveness etc. adj.. trail of temper, casus belli [Lat.] — irritation etc. (anger) 900 — passion etc. (state of excitability) 825 — thrill etc. (feeling) 821 — repression of feeling etc. 826 — sensationalism, yellow journalism.

verb

excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect — stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood — set astir — wake, awake, awaken — call forth — evoke, provoke — raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up — raise — get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir — fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.
stimulate — exsuscitate^† — inspirit — spirit up, stir up, work up, pique — infuse life into, give new life to — bring new blood, introduce new blood — quicken — sharpen, whet — work upon etc. (incite) 615 — hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.
fan the fire, fan the flame — blow the coals, stir the embers — fan into a flame — foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat — keep up, keep the pot boiling — revive, rekindle — rake up, rip up.
stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings — touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart — go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick — possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.
absorb, rivet the attention — sink into the mind, sink into the heart — prey on the mind, distract — intoxicate — overwhelm, overpower — bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.
fascinate — enrapture etc. (give pleasure) 829.
agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger — give one a shock, give one a turn — strike all of a heap — stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
irritate, sting — cut to the heart, cut to the quick — try one's temper — fool to the top of one's bent, pique — infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil — lash into fury etc. (wrath) 900.
be excited etc. adj. — flush up, flare up — catch the infection — thrill etc. (feel) 821 — mantle — work oneself up — seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave — run mad etc. (passion) 825.

adjective

excited etc. v. — wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir, sparkling — in a quiver etc. 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement — in hysterics — black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge — hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish — all of a twitter, in a pucker — with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.
flaming — boiling over — ebullient, seething — foaming at the mouth — fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse^†, demoniacal.
lost, eperdu [Fr.], tempest-tossed — haggard — ready to sink.
stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes.
exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting etc. v. — impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling — high-wrought — soul-stirring, soul-subduing — heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling — agonizing etc. (painful) 830 — telling, sensational, hysterical — overpowering, overwhelming — more than flesh and blood can bear — yellow.
piquant etc. (pungent) 392 — spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant^†, tantalizing.
eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.

adverb

till one is black in the face.

phrase

the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth — the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins — the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling — the head turned — when the going gets tough, the tough get when the going gets tough, the tough get going" [Richard Nixon].

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