slovo | definícia |
enthusiasm (mass) | enthusiasm
- entuziazmus, nadšenie, horlivosť |
enthusiasm (encz) | enthusiasm,entusiasmus luke |
enthusiasm (encz) | enthusiasm,entuziasmus n: Pino |
enthusiasm (encz) | enthusiasm,nadšení luke |
enthusiasm (encz) | enthusiasm,zanícení n: Pino |
Enthusiasm (gcide) | Enthusiasm \En*thu"si*asm\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to be inspired or
possessed by the god, fr. ?, ?, inspired: cf. enthousiasme.
See Entheal, Theism.]
1. 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.
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Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine
revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed
or overweening imagination. --Locke.
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2. A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of
fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
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Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented
of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing
duties of hard everyday routine. --Froude.
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Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of
susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating
shrewdness. --Bancroft.
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3. 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.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Emerson.
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4. Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
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Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm.
--Prescott.
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enthusiasm (wn) | enthusiasm
n 1: a feeling of excitement
2: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn:
exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience]
3: a lively interest; "enthusiasm for his program is growing" |
enthusiasm (devil) | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of
repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a
relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
enthusiasm (mass) | enthusiasm
- entuziazmus, nadšenie, horlivosť |
enthusiasm (encz) | enthusiasm,entusiasmus lukeenthusiasm,entuziasmus n: Pinoenthusiasm,nadšení lukeenthusiasm,zanícení n: Pino |
overenthusiasm (gcide) | overenthusiasm \overenthusiasm\ n.
Excessive enthusiasm.
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enthusiasm (wn) | enthusiasm
n 1: a feeling of excitement
2: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn:
exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience]
3: a lively interest; "enthusiasm for his program is growing" |
enthusiasm (devil) | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of
repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a
relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi.
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