exsuscitation means A stirring up; a rousing. It carries an Arena rating of 1384, earned across 40 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, exsuscitation ranks #579 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #1,735 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #2,810 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #2,976 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “exsuscitation” is a great word
EXSUSCITATION — [Noun] The act of thoroughly rousing or stirring up from dormancy. From Latin exsuscitātiōn-em, from exsuscitāre (to rouse thoroughly), from ex- (thoroughly) + suscitāre (to raise up, rouse). Unlike agitation, which denotes a disturbed state, or instigation, which implies a targeted provocation, exsuscitation is the generative process of summoning a latent force into being. It is the scent of rain stirring roots in parched earth, the conductor’s baton poised in silence before the first chord, the first cold wind churning a placid lake into whitecaps—the quiet art of calling a potential forth from the deep.
Etymology
From Latin exsuscitatio.
noun
- A stirring up; a rousing.e.g.“Paul could not have bin so backward as to need such sharp exsuscitation, when once convinced, for theres no such great unpleasantness to the flesh, as to engender any aversenesse unto that” — 1669, Samuel Fisher, Baptism before, or after faith & repentance:
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