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exuberance

Syllables: ex·u·ber·anceUK/ɪɡˈzjuːbəɹəns/

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British/ɪɡˈʒʉwbəɹəns/

exuberance noun: the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.

Noun

exuberance (countable and uncountable, plural exuberances)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
    • Tottenham's desire for a win against a Norwich side playing with energy and exuberance made for an enthralling, end-to-end game.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
    • The stock market found itself at a similar moment 29 years ago, when Alan Greenspan famously warned of “irrational exuberance” fueling a bubble in internet stocks. The S&P 500 had risen more than 60 percent in the two years before Mr. Greenspan’s speech.2025 December 9, Joe Rennison, “Wall Street Is Shaking Off Fears of an A.I. Bubble. For Now.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
  2. An instance of exuberant behaviour.
  3. An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.
    • an exuberance of branches in a plant
  4. An abundance of wealth.

exuberance meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Odia

exuberance in Urdu

بہتات, افراط, کثرت, ریل پیل, وافرت

exuberance in Malayalam

ധാരാളമുള്ള അവസ്ഥ, ആധിക്യം, സമ്പൂർണ്ണത, സമൃദ്ധി

exuberance in Odia

exuberance; profusion; abundance
ସମୃଦ୍ଧି samruddhi
exuberance; plenty
ସମ୍ପତ୍ତି sampatti

Examples of exuberance in a sentence

  • When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.
  • The youthful exuberance of the T-Tauri stage was thus spent after about 10 million years.
  • I liken the exuberance of astrophiles to the desperation of cancer patients.

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Synonyms of exuberance

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Forms of exuberance

pluralexuberances

Origin of exuberance

From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exuberare (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex- (“out”) + uber (“udder”), which would have originally referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

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Questions about exuberance

What does exuberance mean?
Exuberance means the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
What is exuberance in Urdu?
Exuberance in Urdu is بہتات, افراط, کثرت. See Exuberance meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is exuberance?
Exuberance is a noun.
How do you pronounce exuberance?
Exuberance is pronounced /ɪɡˈzjuːbəɹəns/ (UK).
What is the plural of exuberance?
The plural of exuberance is exuberances.

Words near exuberance in the dictionary

  1. extuberating
  2. extuberation
  3. extuberations
  4. extumescence
  5. extumescences
  6. exuberance
  7. exuberances
  8. exuberancies
  9. exuberancy
  10. exuberant
  11. exuberantly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exuberance (page history and authors); exuberance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exuberance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ସମୃଦ୍ଧି (Odia) (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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