counterexcitement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]"
- "As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy."
Etymology
From counter- + excitement.