exuberance

Meaning

Noun

• The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
• An instance of exuberant behaviour.
• An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.

Related

Similar words

• ebullience

Origin

• From French exubérance, from Latin exuberantia, from exuberare; from e, and uber, 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.