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Roget 825: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness etc. adj.; turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance^†; irritability etc. (irascibility) 901; itching etc. (desire) 865; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation etc. (irregular motion) 315.    trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry^†, thrill etc. (feeling) 821; state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.    passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.    violence etc. 173; fierceness etc. adj.; rage, fury, furor, furore^†, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy^†, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger etc. 900.    fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete montee [Fr.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 863: rashness etc. adj.; temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity.    precipitancy, precipitation; impetuosity; levity; foolhardihood^†, foolhardiness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness etc. (inattention) 458; carelessness etc. (neglect) 460; desperation; Quixotism, knight-errantry; fire eating.    gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket.    desperado, rashling^†, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu [Fr.]; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard^†; boomer [U.S.].    ... meer laten zien

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