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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

entusiasmo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: entusiasmo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Enthusiasm/ɪnˈθuː.zi.æz.əm/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2100 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O projeto foi recebido com grande entusiasmo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.

    "Her enthusiasm for the project was infectious."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek word enthousiasmos, meaning 'inspired or possessed by a god', stemming from enthous (en- 'in' + theos 'god'). Over centuries, the term shifted from denoting religious frenzy or divine inspiration to describing intense eager enjoyment, interest, or approval in secular contexts.

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