synonyms for enthusiasm
- ardor
- devotion
- eagerness
- emotion
- energy
- feeling
- fervor
- frenzy
- fury
- intensity
- interest
- joy
- passion
- spirit
- warmth
- zeal
- activity
- avidity
- conviction
- craze
- dash
- earnestness
- ecstasy
- exhilaration
- fad
- fanaticism
- fever
- fieriness
- fire
- flame
- flare
- gaiety
- glow
- go
- heat
- hilarity
- hobby
- impetuosity
- joyfulness
- keenness
- life
- mania
- mirth
- nerve
- oomph
- orgasm
- pep
- rapture
- relish
- snap
- transport
- vehemence
- verve
- vim
- vivacity
- zest
- ardency
- red heat
- zealousness
- élan
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What is another word for enthusiasm?
What is another word for enthusiasm?
Enthusiasm is lively interest or eagerness.
Similar words are keenness and avidity, but their adjective forms are much more common: keen and avid (which are both synonyms for the adjective enthusiastic).
To show enthusiasm about something is often to show excitement about it.
In the context of enthusiasm for a topic, interest, or endeavor, even stronger words are passion and zeal. A more formal word is ardor.
Someone who is considered to have too much enthusiasm for something might be described as overenthusiastic or overzealous. Such a person’s enthusiasm might be called obsessed. In a more colloquial sense, you might be a bit much.
What is the opposite (antonym) of enthusiasm?
What is the opposite (antonym) of enthusiasm?
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WORDS RELATED TO ENTHUSIASM
- appetites
- ardors
- aspirations
- avidities
- cravings
- desires
- drives
- eagerness
- earnestness
- emulations
- energies
- enterprises
- enthusiasms
- fire in bellies
- get up and gos
- hankerings
- hopes
- hunger
- initiatives
- itches
- keenness
- longings
- loves
- lust
- moxies
- passions
- pretensions
- pushes
- right stuffs
- spirits
- strivings
- thirsts
- vigor
- yearnings
- zeal