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Meaning of counterexcitement | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“[…] 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; […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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See also

counterexcommunication counterexemplar counterexemplification counterexplanation counterexploitation counterexplosion

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