EXUBERANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exuberance mean? 

• EXUBERANCE (noun)
  The noun EXUBERANCE has 2 senses:

1. joyful enthusiasm

2. overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

  Familiarity information: EXUBERANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXUBERANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joyful enthusiasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("exuberance" is a kind of...):

joy; joyfulness; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)

enthusiasm (a feeling of excitement)

Derivation:

exuberant (joyously unrestrained)

exuberate (to express great joy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ebullience; enthusiasm; exuberance

Hypernyms ("exuberance" is a kind of...):

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exuberance"):

lyricism (unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm)

madness; rabidity; rabidness (unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm)

Derivation:

exuberate (to express great joy)

 Context examples 

And then, in an exuberance of joy, “I hardly know whether to be glad or not.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner's hope of Lydia's being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But Mrs. Dashwood, trusting to the temperate account of her own disappointment which Elinor had sent her, was led away by the exuberance of her joy to think only of what would increase it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then—oh! how shall one describe what took place then—when the full exuberance of the majority and the full reaction of the minority united to make one great wave of enthusiasm, which rolled from the back of the hall, gathering volume as it came, swept over the orchestra, submerged the platform, and carried the four heroes away upon its crest?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)