counterexcitement

noun

A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.

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Meanings

nouncounterexcitement (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.

    […] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]

    1886, Edward Verrall Lucas, The Life of Frederick Lucas, volume 2, page 182
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    As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy.

    1872, George Ticknor Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, page 61

Origin

From counter- + excitement.

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