Collocations for excitement - noun

considerable, fierce, great, high, intense, tremendous | breathless, febrile, feverish, heady, wild | genuine, real, sheer | initial | sudden | growing, heightened, mounting | added, further | suppressed | nervous, restless | guilty | pleasurable | strange | vicarious
The reader of adventure stories wants romance and vicarious excite

youthful | intellectual, physical, political, sexual

flicker, flurry, flush, frisson, ripple, surge
She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song.

be bubbling with, be filled with, be flushed with, be sick with, be trembling/tingling with, feel
Her face was flushed with excitement. | She was almost sick with excitement and apprehension.

cause, generate
The news caused tremendous excitement among scientists.

conceal, control, hide, suppress
He couldn''t suppress the excitement in his voice.

add
The element of risk just adds excitement.

build up, grow, mount, rise
The tension and excitement built up gradually all day.

die down, evaporate, wear off

in ~
clapping her hands in excitement

~ among
The news has caused great excitement among scientists.

~ at
her excitement at the prospect of a new job

~ of
the excitement of meeting new people

an air of excitement
There was an air of excitement about the place.

a feeling/sense of excitement, a fever/state of excitement