exuberance

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun joyful enthusiasm
  2. noun overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

Etymology

From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exuberare (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex- (“out”) + uber (“udder”), which would have originally referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

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