different between enthusiasm vs dithyrambic

English

Etymology

First attested from 1603, from Middle French enthousiasme, from Late Latin enthusiasmus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (enthousiasmós), from ?? (en, “in”) + ???? (theós, “god”) + ????? (ousía, “essence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??ju?z?æz(?)m/, /?n-/
• (yod dropping) IPA^(key): /-?u?-/

Noun

enthusiasm (countable and uncountable, plural enthusiasms)

1. (obsolete or historical) Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.
2. Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.

3. Something in which one is keenly interested.
   • 1968, Central States Archaeological Journal (volumes 15-16, page 154)

     My main enthusiasm is attending and seeing the progress and interest of collectors, to meet old friends, and hopefully to make new friends.

Related terms

• enthuse
• enthusiast
• enthusiastic
• enthusiastically

Translations

Anagrams

• Shunamites

English

Etymology

dithyramb +? -ic

Adjective

dithyrambic (comparative more dithyrambic, superlative most dithyrambic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.
   • 1985, Paul Binding, Harmonica's Bridegroom [1], ?ISBN, page 131:

     ... thighs appear to be continuously alighting and pausing in mid-air, detached from their dithyrambic owners, like luminous birds on the wing.

   • 2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy [2] by Friedrich Nietzsche, page 104:

     The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.

   • 2005, William Forbes Gray, Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions [3], ?ISBN, page 25:

     Nevertheless, if one has time and, still more, the patience to search whole acres of dithyrambic prose, he shall have his reward.

Noun

dithyrambic (plural dithyrambics)

1. A dithyramb.
   • 1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, ^[4] page 451,

     As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.