ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured,
casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable &c (inexcitable) 826 [Obs.];
unfelt.
Adv. insensibly &c adj.; aequo animo [Lat.]; without being moved, without being
touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung † .
Phr. never mind; macht nichts [G.], it is of no consequence &c (unimportant) 643; it
cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one to.
824. Excitation -- N. excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation † , galvanism,
stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection;
animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment † ;
entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.
unction, impressiveness &c adj.. trail of temper, casus belli [Lat.]; irritation &c
(anger) 900; passion &c (state of excitability) 825; thrill &c (feeling) 821; repression of
feeling &c 826; sensationalism, yellow journalism.
V. excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite,
infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call
forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up;
raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on
fire, inflame.
stimulate; exsuscitate † ; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give
new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon
&c (incite) 615; hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.
fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster,
heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle;
rake up, rip up.
stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch
a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through
one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the
soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.
absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind,
distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.
fascinate; enrapture &c (give pleasure) 829.
agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock,
give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's
bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury &c (wrath) 900.
be excited &c adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill &c (feel) 821; mantle;
work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad &c
(passion) 825.
Adj. excited &c v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir, sparkling; in a quiver &c
821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the
face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a
twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.