different between excitement vs concitation

English

excite +? -ment

excitement (countable and uncountable, plural excitements)

(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
- E.A. Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:
  By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.
(countable) something that excites.

From Latin concit?ti?nem, from concit?re. Compare concitate.

concitation (plural concitations)

(archaic) Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
  The revelations of heaven are conceived by immediate illumination of the soul; whereas the deceiving spirit, by concitation of humours, produces conceited phantasmes.

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