🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

eccitamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: [et.tʃi.taˈmɛn.to]

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Concitement/kənˈsaɪt.mənṭ/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il discorso provocò un forte eccitamento nella folla."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of rousing, inciting, or stirring up to action or feeling; instigation.

    "The fierce rhetoric served as a direct concitement to civil unrest."
  2. 2

    A motive or stimulus that prompts an action or reaction.

    "His ambition was the primary concitement behind his tireless efforts."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'concitamentum', stemming from 'concitatus' (past participle of 'concitare', meaning to arouse, excite, or urge on), formed by the prefix com- together with citare (to rouse). It entered English usage during the early modern period as a formal term for incitement or provocation.

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