rhapsody
Other forms: rhapsodies
A rhapsody is an impassioned speech or sentiment. Your rhapsody about the desserts at your city's new restaurant has all of your friends drooling and dying to try them.
A rhapsody is also part of an epic poem that is suitable for reciting. The word comes from the Greek word rhapsodios, which means a person who recites epic poems, and whose root is rhaptein, meaning to stitch. A rhapsody is also a musical piece noted for its improvisational nature and irregular form. Perhaps the most famous of this type of music is George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," composed in 1924.
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a state of elated bliss
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the expression of excessive emotion, enthusiasm, or pleasuresynonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness, expansivitytype of:communicativenessthe trait of being communicative
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an improvisational and emotional musical composition with an irregular form
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an epic poem adapted for recitation
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