ebulliences

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
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

   Synonyms:

   exuberance