thrilling
noun1
A thrill.
- […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land:
thrilling
adj/ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
1
Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- thrillingly, thrillingness, unthrilling