different between exuberate vs exuberance

English

Etymology

From Latin exuberatus, past participle of exuberare. See exuberant (“adjective”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z(j)u?b???e?t/

Verb

exuberate (third-person singular simple present exuberates, present participle exuberating, simple past and past participle exuberated)

1. (obsolete) To abound; to be in great abundance.
   • 1648 (published in 1660), Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love

     that vast confluence and immensity, that exuberates in God

2. (now rare) To develop into (something), by an exuberance of growth.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1140:

     ‘He might perhaps have become one, if he had had time to ripen, (smiling.) He might have exuberated into an Atheist.’

Latin

Verb

ex?ber?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ex?ber?

English

Etymology

From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia (“superabundance”), from exuberare (“to grow thickly, to abound”); from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks?ju?.b???.?ns/, /???.?u?.b???.?ns/

Noun

exuberance (countable and uncountable, plural exuberances)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
2. An instance of exuberant behaviour.
3. An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.

Synonyms

• ebullience

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