Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being effusive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a friendly open trait of a talkative person; enthusiasm exhibited with little restraint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
effusive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a friendly open trait of a talkative person
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Examples
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She was the last woman to desire or tolerate public exhibitions of uxoriousness or to measure the depth of a husband's love by the froth on the surface, and she was reared in a school in which effusiveness is not approved.
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What is remarkable in these early lyrics, however, is that though they vibrate with the emotion of the poet, the emotion is under strict restraint and never passes into the watery effusiveness which is the inherent sin of so much German lyrical poetry.
The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883
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Ever since Herodotus Egyptians have welcomed foreigners with an admixture of banter, hearty browbeating, effusiveness, and the sort of insincere familiarity associated with people trying to become intimate enough to pick a pocket.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Capello will have been pleased by the display even if effusiveness is not his style.
Bulgaria 0-3 England | Euro 2012 qualifier match report 2011
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Ever since Herodotus Egyptians have welcomed foreigners with an admixture of banter, hearty browbeating, effusiveness, and the sort of insincere familiarity associated with people trying to become intimate enough to pick a pocket.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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The filmmakers and their producer, Judd Apatow, see the comedy genre as including all sorts of quirks and qualities that make us human—effusiveness, obtuseness, tenderness, fury, delicacy, idiocy, eloquence.
'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The character of ancient Rome -- stern, plain, sensible, rather than poetic -- shows in the Roman rite, just as Eastern effusiveness shows in the Eastern rites.
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Eschenbach may also have encouraged the exaggerated physical effusiveness of Lang Lang.
Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start? Anne Midgette 2010
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The effusiveness of that ending seemed positively Joycean.
Sex and/or Mr. Morrison | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2010
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Neither was given to deep introspection; neither had much tolerance for expressions of self-pity or even words of sympathy if offered with any degree of effusiveness.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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