enthusiasm
/ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
enthusiasm noun: an intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
Noun
enthusiasm (countable and uncountable, plural enthusiasms)
- An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
- Try to curb your enthusiasm.
- They have a great enthusiasm for country music.
- Synonyms:
- spirit
- Something in which one is keenly interested.
- My main enthusiasm is attending and seeing the progress and interest of collectors, to meet old friends, and hopefully to make new friends.1968, Central States Archaeological Journal, volumes 15-16, page 154
- Other Adamsian enthusiasms included: fast cars; restaurants; Bach, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits; […]2012, Nicholas Joll, Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 23
- Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
- The intoxication that they sought was that of ‘enthusiasm’, of union with the god.1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter 1, in History of Western Philosophy
enthusiasm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
enthusiasm in Hindi
- feeling of excited, lively interest
- जोश joś, उत्साह utsāh
enthusiasm in Tamil
- feeling of excited, lively interest
- உத்வேகம் utvēkam
enthusiasm in Marathi
- feeling of excited, lively interest
- उत्साह utsāha, जोश joś
enthusiasm in Urdu
- enthusiasm, zeal, ardour
- جوش joś
More languagesFewer languages
- enthusiasm in Bengali
- জোস jōs, উৎসাহ utśahô, উদ্দীপনা uddipôna
- enthusiasm in Telugu
- ఉత్సాహం utsāhaṁ
- enthusiasm in Malayalam
- താത്പര്യം tātparyaṁ, ഉത്സാഹം utsāhaṁ
- enthusiasm in Kannada
- ಉಮೇದು umēdu
- enthusiasm in Punjabi
- ਹਰਾਰਤ harārat
- enthusiasm in Gujarati
- ઉત્સાહ utsāh
- enthusiasm in Odia
- ଉତ୍ସାହ
- enthusiasm in Sanskrit
- उत्साह utsāha
- enthusiasm in Tagalog
- entusyasmo
- enthusiasm in Arabic
- حَمَاس ḥamās, حَمَاسَة ḥamāsa
- enthusiasm in Vietnamese
- sự hăng hái, sự nhiệt tình
Examples of enthusiasm in a sentence
- He kindled an enthusiasm for the project in his fellow workers.
- I'd like to see a touch more enthusiasm in the project.
- After much discussion, we decided to set about the task with much enthusiasm.
Synonyms of enthusiasm
Antonyms
Forms of enthusiasm
| plural | enthusiasms |
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Origin of enthusiasm
First attested from 1603, from Middle French enthousiasme, from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”) + οὐσία (ousía, “essence”).
Words formed from enthusiasm
Questions about enthusiasm
- What does enthusiasm mean?
- Enthusiasm means an intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness.
- What is enthusiasm in Hindi?
- Enthusiasm in Hindi is जोश (joś), उत्साह (utsāh). See Enthusiasm meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is enthusiasm?
- Enthusiasm is a noun.
- How do you pronounce enthusiasm?
- Enthusiasm is pronounced /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/.
- What is the plural of enthusiasm?
- The plural of enthusiasm is enthusiasms.
Words near enthusiasm in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enthusiasm (page history and authors); جوش (Urdu) (page history and authors); উদ্দীপনা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ಉಮೇದು (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਹਰਾਰਤ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ઉત્સાહ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); enthusiasm (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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