counterexcitement
nounEtymology From counter- + excitement.
1
A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.
- […] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]1886, Edward Verrall Lucas, The Life of Frederick Lucas, volume 2, page 182:
- As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy.1872, George Ticknor Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, page 61: