What is another word for effusiveness?

Pronunciation: [ɪfjˈuːsɪvnəs] (IPA)

Effusiveness refers to an exuberant and unrestrained expression of feelings or emotions. Some synonyms for this word include: enthusiasm, exuberance, ebullience, zeal, ardor, vivaciousness, buoyancy, liveliness, cheerfulness, and high-spiritedness. These words all convey a sense of energy and excitement, and are often used to describe people who are particularly outgoing or who are able to express themselves with great passion. Effusiveness can also be seen in other areas of life, such as in creative arts or in the natural world, where abundant growth and vibrant colors might be seen as examples of effusive energy.

What are the hypernyms for Effusiveness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Effusiveness?

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What are the opposite words for effusiveness?

Effusiveness is the quality of being excessively expressive or enthusiastic. Antonyms for effusiveness can connote a lack of expression or enthusiasm, or a reserved nature. Some possible antonyms include reserve, restraint, reticence, moderation, austerity, sobriety, uncommunicativeness, coolness, indifference, and dispassion. These words imply a range of attitudes or behaviors that differ from effusiveness, from the controlled and measured to the distant and apathetic. Depending on the context and tone of a situation, the use of an antonym for effusiveness can convey a sense of detachment, seriousness, or even hostility.

What are the antonyms for Effusiveness?

Usage examples for Effusiveness

To the Resident she was friendly in the extreme, and in a frank, genial way, utterly free from effusiveness; while to Grey Stuart she was tenderness itself, kissing her and talking to her in a low voice of the trouble, and keeping her all the time at her side.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
But, on shaking Throckmorton's hand at saying good-night, with solemn but genuine effusiveness, he said not one word about calling at Millenbeck.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
Evening was near at hand when Mr. Hobhouse entered his teetotal haven, and his effusiveness was quite sincere as he rubbed his hands over a blazing fire in the doctor's smoking room, and still sincerer when he faced an excellent high tea.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston

Famous quotes with Effusiveness

  • I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant was—wrapped up in the arts, the natural (not social) sciences, the of history & antiquarianism, the academic phases of philosophy, & so on—all the one-sided standard lore to which, according to the traditions of the dying order, a liberal education was limited. God! the things that were —the inside facts of history, the rational interpretation of periodic social crises, the foundations of economics & sociology, the actual state of the world today … & above all, the of applying disinterested reason to problems hitherto approached only with traditional genuflections, flag-waving, & callous shoulder-shrugs! All this comes up with humiliating force through an incident of a few days ago—when young Conover, having established contact with Henneberger, the ex-owner of , obtained from the latter a long epistle which I wrote Edwin Baird on Feby. 3, 1924, in response to a request for biographical & personal data. Little Willis asked permission to publish the text in his combined , & I began looking the thing over to see what it was like—for I had not the least recollection of ever having penned it. Well …. I managed to get through, after about 10 closely typed pages of egotistical reminiscences & showing-off & expressions of opinion about mankind & the universe. I did not faint—but I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was that much of a dub at 33 … only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it—I really thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centred, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally able to get around more in 1920, is hardly much of an excuse. Well—there was nothing to be done … except to rush a note back to Conover & tell him I'd dismember him & run the fragments through a sausage-grinder if he ever thought of printing such a thing! The only consolation lay in the reflection that I matured a bit since '24. It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.
    H. P. Lovecraft

Related words: effusive language, overflowing, overflowing with emotion, overflowing with gratitude, effusive speech, effusive praise, effusive thank you, effusively praise

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