exuberance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Lively, joyful enthusiasm and energy.

   The fans' exuberance filled the stadium with noise and color.

2. 2
   noun

   An overflowing amount of something.

   The plant's exuberance of branches made it hard to see through the window.

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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