[f. L. ēbullient-em, pr. pple. of ēbullīre, f. ē out + bullīre to BOIL. See -ENCE.] An issuing forth in agitation, like boiling water; overflow; enthusiasm, extravagance.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, Wks. 1775, II. 170. The extravagance, or rather ebullience of his passion.
1825. Carlyle, Schiller, II. (1845), 79. The ebullience of youth is now chastened into the stedfast energy of manhood.
1885. Swinburne, in 19th Cent., Jan., 67. The danger of an overflow into gushing ebullience.
