"Enthusiasm" is a word in ENGLISH
Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong
excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and
imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with
enthusiasm.
Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power;
ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of
being directly subject to some divine impulse.
A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of
fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.
Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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