galvanic
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8.2
- adjective
- /ɡælˈvænɪk/
:
electrizante
- Sometimes my heart had a galvanic contraction, and I woke up enough to know that I'd been falling asleep.
- galvanic effect
Examples
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So if we look over here, so people knew about the galvanic, that's good, right.
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The shock of touching his foot went all through his body, a galvanic impulse that jerked him upright.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is not about a galvanic response.
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It's galvanic.
Fiction book (2001) -
She wasn't what I thought of as beautiful, but magnetic, galvanic.
Fiction book (1997) -
Newspapers advertise the Galvanic Apparatus, a machine to shock life back into the sick and the dying.
Academic text (2004) -
The athlete's galvanic performance energized the entire crowd, igniting their passion for the sport.
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Her galvanic speech at the rally inspired everyone to take action and make a difference.
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The film's galvanic climax left the audience in awe, evoking powerful emotions and excitement.
Synonyms
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4.1
Full of strong excitement and emotion
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4.5
Makes people feel a sudden, strong excitement
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6.2
Full of strong emotion, often exciting or tense
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6.8
Causing people to become suddenly excited and ready to act
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6.5
Very exciting and full of energy
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.2
Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A device that makes electricity when chemicals react and cannot be recharged
- Archaic
An early battery made of stacked metal plates with wet material between them
How Thrilling
Surface Forms
Morphology
galvanic = galvanize (transparent) = galvan + ic
Derived from the verb 'galvanize' with '-ic' to form an adjective meaning 'producing a galvanize-like (shocking/energizing) effect', so the figurative sense is predictable.
Etymology
Galvanic also came to mean a sudden, exciting shock because of the work of Galvani, and it is related to the verb galvanize, which means 'to shock into action'. So a galvanic performance feels like an 'electric shock' and is thrilling and energizing.