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excitación

excitement

noun eks-see-tah-SYOHN Rare
Mind & Emotions Emotions

Origin: Latin 'excitatio' (a rousing), from 'excitare' (to rouse).

Also means

excitation

Usage Note

Excitación covers both emotional excitement and the scientific/physical sense of excitation (e.g. atomic or neural excitation). In everyday speech it means eager anticipation or agitation; in a medical or physics context it refers to a state of heightened energy. The verb is excitar, and the adjective excitado/a can mean excited but also, in informal registers, sexually aroused — context matters. The plural excitaciones drops the accent: stress is naturally penultimate.

Examples

"Los niños no podían ocultar su excitación."

Natural Translation

The children could not hide their excitement.

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