23 February 2013

ebullience

[ih-buhl-yuhns, ih-bool-]

noun

1. high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
2. a boiling over; overflow.

Also, e·bul·lien·cy.

Origin:
1740–50; ebulli(ent) + -ence

Related forms
non·e·bul·lience, noun
non·e·bul·lien·cy, noun

Example sentence:

He couldn’t hide his ebullience when told of his promotion.

Today’s aphorism

‘If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more’.

– Led Zeppelin, from Thank You

On this day

23 February 1954 – Polio vaccines first become available.

23 February 1987 – the light from Supernova 1987A reaches Earth, 170,000 years after it exploded. The supernova was 1 million trillion miles away.