1A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.

1. 1.1count noun Something that arouses a feeling of excitement.
   the excitements of the previous night

   Example sentencesExamples

   • And the reason it's worked, I think, is because it's an amazing adventure story told in a rather old-fashioned way, you know, full of cliff hangers and excitements as well as comedy.
   • It took the excitements and sensations in its stride and refused to make a crisis out of a drama.
   • Goodness knows what ups and downs await the world of racing in the coming 12 months but after the excitements of the year ending tonight, I'm sure none of us will complain if the tempo drops just a fraction.
   • My friend Alan from Oldham was staying, wanting to see some of the excitements of London, though neither of us had as much money as we would have liked.
   • Who can focus, in newsrooms abuzz with today's excitements, on last month's story, which is not going to be exclusive anyway?
   • The result is thrilling: a book that combines the excitements of a soaring historical narrative with those of a subtle and deeply intriguing detective tale.
   • It isn't that the novel is badly written - the plotting and pacing reveal the steady hand of the professional - it just doesn't possess the excitements of the poolside diversion nor the dark matter of more provoking reads.
   • They have probably discovered the excitements, stimulations and frustrations of living in another country and of being part of a multicultural, perhaps even a truly global community.
   • Make up your mind as to what is the duty of honest citizens because all these political excitements will soon be gone.
   • Despite the excitements it had to offer, I was happy to leave the pollution and sprawl of L.A. and set off for the shores of Tonga.
   • That's the first thing you learn in the wilds of life, where thrive all the arts, action, adventure, discoveries, revelations, epiphanies, excitements and beauties.
   • It will explore the excitements of Paris between the wars, through opera, ballet, concerts, oratorio, film and visual arts, and a specially commissioned book.
   • Behind these excitements and behind the emotional outbursts of opinion and violence, the biggest issue remains the contest between secularism and religion at the heart of Indian governance.
   • And then we complain about the dullness, and invent excitements that are the kind we really like: moon shots, spaceships, curing diseases.
   • In the early 1980s, a lot of people were waking up to the cultural possibilities and, yes, the aesthetic excitements, of design.
   • At children's parties, the excitements include pass the parcel and hide and seek; at adult parties you have the excitement of the mystery guest.
   • Such excitements have not yet been seen on the streets of old Riga, but that mixed blessing - the low-cost airline - may soon be visited upon the city.
   • At the most obvious level it's a dark comedy about a man in the grip of a middle-aged crisis, desperate to revisit the excitements of growing up in the eye of the storm raging in London in the 1960s.
   • From Fleet Street through to St Paul's Cathedral there was a rolling barrage of music, and great fanfares and other excitements.
   • Village celebrations and feast days, visiting entertainers, Sunday school excursions, even (when buses came in) excursions to Bournemouth, were the highest excitements of life.

   Synonyms

   thrill, thrilling sensation, exciting sensation, adventure, treat

   pleasure, delight, joy

   informal kick, buzz, high

   North American informal charge
2. 1.2 Sexual arousal.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • They develop during puberty and start to release sweat in response to stress, emotion and sexual excitement.
   • For many, that left just enough time to nip home, take a shower, and head in to work, tired but still flush with excitement.
   • He thought back to the flush of excitement that had driven him to propose at seventeen.
   • Everything moved so slowly once again, as the excitement rose up within him.
   • Dmitri watched her pale shoulders quiver ever so slightly and felt his own excitement build.
   • The quantity and colour of this can change during the menstrual cycle, sexual excitement and pregnancy.
   • So, our relationship was a bit lacking in passion and excitement, but whose isn't?
   • I guess when couples date but live apart there is some kind of excitement a bit like being in school and dating someone.
   • I feel nervous excitement build in my stomach spreading over my whole body.
   • In addition, his sexual excitement results in a self-conscious desire to conceal himself.
   • Did he never think that playing a man who finds sexual excitement in car-crashes could damage his career?
   • Aren't we playing up to the male libido and their insatiable desire for sex and excitement?
   • Avoid people, situations, pictures, or reading materials that might create sexual excitement.
   • My, where has all that excitement, romance and discovery dissipated itself to?
   • Enjoy the look on your partner's face as you build them into a frenzy of sexual excitement.
   • He was used to the shiver of excitement, desire, that he got when she was near him, when she touched him.

   Synonyms

   arousal, sexual arousal, passion, fire, glow

   stimulation, titillation, attraction

   informal turning on