Enthusiasm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENTHUSIASM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• intense and lively interest
• intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval
• something that arouses enthusiasm
• religious fervour supposedly resulting directly from divine inspiration, typically involving speaking in tongues and wild, uncoordinated movements of the body.
• Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.
• A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
• Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm.
• Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
• a feeling of excitement
• overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
• a lively interest
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• belief in special revelations of the Holy Spirit; religious fanaticism

Words related to ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasms16 entrainement14 schwarmerei21

Words that contain ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasms16 overenthusiasm22 overenthusiasms23

How to use ENTHUSIASM in a sentence

• Historians speak of him without enthusiasm, but with great respect.
• The underlying motive was not economic necessity, nor religious enthusiasm, but sheer lust of gain.
• Patriotic enthusiasm, however, as no one knew better than Johnson, is a poor substitute for bed and supper.
• What one cannot help wondering is whether this kind of enthusiasm is valuable to the character under its influence, whatever the subject of that enthusiasm may be.
• They are directed by a lieutenant-colonel, who goes into it with great enthusiasm, and really gets up a first-class programme.
• Public opinion, so long prepared, responded with enthusiasm to the plans and calls of the leaders.
• But he adopted a third plan, which had the effect not merely of securing obedience, but of exciting enthusiasm and devotion.
• He contemplated a Church in which the Enthusiasm of Humanity should not be felt by two or three only, but widely.
• There seems nothing in this to account for the mad enthusiasm and the passion for worship in its followers.
• He even developed an enthusiasm for it, to his own surprise.
• He was endowed with a rich vein of that imaginative power which is the very life of all enthusiasm.
• For the Scots in character I conceived much respect and little enthusiasm.
• The children developed so much enthusiasm, and answered so readily, that all were agreeably surprised, and rewarded us with loud applause.
• He fought them with the right arm and the left in long heavy strokes, patiently, without enthusiasm.
• About all he had to depend on was the patriotism of his men and their enthusiasm over their brilliant crossing of the Andes and their easy victory over their foes.
• The enthusiasm for the dance, which the Vannis had kindled, did not at once die out.
• He went home, and after relating the incident with the greatest enthusiasm, he sat down and drew a picture representing the scene.
• It had arrested also the attention of the nation, and it had produced a kind of holy flame, or enthusiasm, and this to a degree and to an extent never before witnessed.
• At length ceasing to struggle with the conflicting desire within him, his renewed enthusiasm for his favourite science restored the health he had lost in abandoning it.
• That it is the work of men in a state of enthusiasm.

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