Excitement

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.

II. Excitement ·noun A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.

III. Excitement ·noun The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.