What is another word for excitation?

Pronunciation: [ɛksɪtˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Excitation is a term commonly used in science to describe the process of stimulating a reaction or a response in a system. There are several synonyms for excitation, which can be used interchangeably depending on the context in which the term is used. Some of the synonyms of excitation include stimulation, activation, arousal, incitement, provocation, and instigation. These terms refer to a state of heightened activity or responsiveness, which can be caused by various factors such as sensory input, emotional triggers, or chemical reactions. Using these synonyms appropriately can help to effectively communicate scientific concepts and ideas.

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What are the opposite words for excitation?

The antonyms for the word "excitation" can vary depending on the context. However, some possible antonyms include calmness, serenity, tranquility, stillness, and stability. These antonyms refer to a lack of physical or emotional agitation or arousal. For example, a serene sunset can inspire tranquility while a stable job can provide a sense of calmness. The antonyms of excitation can also include dullness, boredom, lethargy, sluggishness, and apathy. These antonyms imply a lack of energy, enthusiasm, or interest. In summary, the antonyms of excitation suggest an absence of stimulation, excitement, or engagement.

Usage examples for Excitation

But the excitation of the moment having passed away, other and no less powerful feelings succeeded; and they were painful, or the reverse, according as they ran in one or other of the channels into which the situations and prospects of individuals not unnaturally guided them.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
You may look at them, perhaps, for an instant, but you do so almost without being yourself aware of it, so completely are your thoughts carried away by the excitation of the moment and the shouts of your companions.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
He could take pleasure in speaking with her of the old times, of his father, of his early days in Suffolk Street-in hearing her read to him, in being led into an argument with her, which promoted a healthy excitation of the mind, in walking with her when the days were fine.
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson

Famous quotes with Excitation

  • Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
    Charles Scott Sherrington
  • That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
    Charles Scott Sherrington
  • God, say some philosophers, manifests himself in the sublunary world in particular beauties, truths and acts of benevolence; properly, the values should be conjoined to shadow their identity in the godhead, but this happens so infrequently that one must suppose divinity condones a kind of diabolic fracture or else, and perhaps my book is already giving some hint of this, he demonstrates his ineffable freedom through contriving at times a wanton inconsistency. If this is so, we need not wonder at Messalina’s failure to match her beauty with a love of truth and goodness. She was a chronic liar and she was thoroughly bad. But her beauty, we are told, was a miracle. The symmetry of her body obeyed all the golden rules of the mystical architects, her skin was without even the most minuscule flaw and it glowed as though gold had been inlaid behind translucent ivory, her breasts were full and yet pertly disdained earth’s pull, the nipples nearly always erect, and visibly so beneath her byssinos, as in a state of perpetual sexual excitation, the areolas delicately pigmented to a kind of russet. The sight of her weaving bare white arms was enough, it is said, to make a man grit his teeth with desire to be encircled by them; the smooth plain of her back, tapering to slenderness only to expand lusciously to the opulence of her perfect buttocks, demanded unending caresses.
    Anthony Burgess
  • We know what goes on in the act of love, and those of us who are writers despair of ever finding verbal equivalents for the pain and pleasure of excitation fulfilled in what Rabelais’s translator Urquhart called ‘venerean ecstasy’. A mechanical description of the act tells us nothing, any more than a scientifically accurate account of mastication will convey the flavour of roast duck.
    Anthony Burgess
  • In short, to remember is to reconstruct in part on the basis of what we have learned or said since. That's normal, that's how we remember. I tell you this to encourage you to reactivate some of these profiles of excitation, instead of simply digging obsessively in an effort to find something that's already there, as shiny and new as you imagine it was when you first set it aside ... Remembering is a labor, not a luxury.
    Umberto Eco

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