enthusiasm [ en·thu·si·a·sm ]
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1. Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
her energy and enthusiasm for life
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2. Something that arouses enthusiasm.
the three enthusiasms of his life were politics, religion, and books
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3. Religious fervour supposedly resulting directly from divine inspiration, typically involving speaking in tongues and wild, uncoordinated movements of the body.
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1. Mid 16th century (in enthusiasm (sense 2)): via late Latin enthusiasmus ‘inspiration, frenzy’ from Greek enthousiasmos, from enthousiazein ‘be inspired or possessed by a god’ (based on theos ‘god’).

