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ebullience

Syllables: ebul·li·ence/ɪˈbʊl.i.əns//ɪˈbʊl.jəns/

ebullience noun: a boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.

Noun

ebullience (usually uncountable, plural ebulliences)

  1. (usually) A boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.
    • In conversation, doubtless, you may observe him [Samuel Johnson], on occasion, fighting as if for victory;—and must pardon these ebulliences of a careless hour, which were not without temptation and provocation.1832 May, [Thomas Carlyle], “Boswell’s Life of Johnson [book review]”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume V, number XXVIII, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 408, column 2
    • Now an irresistible agent like this [heat] is everywhere at work in the ranges of creaturehood. It lights the stars as its jets. It bulbs the sun body with its ebullience. None the less, it tints the delicate grass blades and flower petals.1878 November, Hugh Smith Carpenter, “Nature’s Travail and Testimony”, in I[saac] K[aufmann] Funk, editor, The Preacher and the Homiletic Monthly, volume III, number 2, New York, N.Y.; London: Funk &...
  2. (figuratively, usually) The quality of enthusiastic or lively expression of feelings and thoughts.
    • Sophia did not ſee his Behaviour in ſo very diſadvantageous a Light, and was perhaps more pleaſed with the violent Raptures of his Love [...] than ſhe was offended with the reſt; and indeed ſhe imputed the whole to the Extravagance, or rather Ebullience, of his Paſſion, and to the Openneſs of his...1749, Henry Fielding, “The Escape of Sophia”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 81–82
    • [H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.1771, [Henry Mackenzie], “His Skill in Physiognomy”, in The Man of Feeling, 2nd edition, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 94
    Synonyms:
    exuberance

ebullience meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

ebullience in Tamil

மிகு மகிழ் ஆற்றல்

ebullience in Malayalam

cheerfulness, exuberance, buoyancy
അത്യുത്സാഹം, പ്രസരിപ്പ്, ആഹ്ലാദത്തിമിർപ്പ്, ഉത്സാഹത്തിമിർപ്പ്, ഉത്സാഹഭരിതത്വം, ആഹ്ലാദം

ebullience in Kannada

ಹುರುಪು, ಉತ್ಸಾಹ, ಉಕ್ಕುವಿಕೆ, ಕುದಿಯುವಿಕೆ

Examples of ebullience in a sentence

  • We grow weary of our paltry carnal transports, our ebulliences of defiance, our abortive expeditions to the frontiers of the respectable world.2016, David Bentley Hart, “Charles Baudelaire: From within the Veil”, in Kenneth Oakes, editor, Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity...
  • But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale...
  • The actual lives led by most African Americans were much different from the grinning masks and the ebullience displayed on stage.1999, Christine Rauchfuss Gray, “Afterword”, in Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama (Contributions in...
  • When I first met him in the wee hours of the morning of this very day, I sensed he possessed an ebullience and intelligence that I had not encountered for the longest time.2010 June, Michael Salvatore, chapter 1, in Between Boyfriends, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 3:

Synonyms of ebullience

Forms of ebullience

pluralebulliences

Origin of ebullience

Borrowed from Latin ēbullientem + English -ence (suffix meaning ‘having the state or condition of’). Ēbullientem is the accusative feminine or masculine singular of ēbulliēns (“boiling”), the present participle of ēbulliō (“to boil”) (from ē- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + bulliō (“to bubble; to boil”) (from bulla (“bubble; bubble-shaped object”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to blow; to inflate”))) + -ēns.

Words formed from ebullience

Questions about ebullience

What does ebullience mean?
Ebullience means a boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.
What is ebullience in Tamil?
Ebullience in Tamil is மிகு மகிழ் ஆற்றல். See Ebullience meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ebullience in a sentence?
We grow weary of our paltry carnal transports, our ebulliences of defiance, our abortive expeditions to the frontiers of the respectable world.
What part of speech is ebullience?
Ebullience is a noun.
How do you pronounce ebullience?
Ebullience is pronounced /ɪˈbʊl.i.əns/ (UK).
What is the plural of ebullience?
The plural of ebullience is ebulliences.

Words near ebullience in the dictionary

  1. ebullating pumps
  2. ebulliate
  3. ebulliated
  4. ebulliates
  5. ebulliating
  6. ebullience
  7. ebulliences
  8. ebulliencies
  9. ebulliency
  10. ebullient
  11. ebulliently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ebullience (page history and authors); ebullience (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ebullience (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ebullience (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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