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The feeling so big your body forgets to act dignified about it.
means Filled with sudden, intense excitement or delight, often enough to make you visibly buzz with joy.
from From the Old English 'thirlian,' meaning to pierce or bore a hole — the same root that gave us 'nostril' (literally a nose-hole). To be 'thrilled' once meant to be pierced through, and that physical jolt of being run through softened over centuries into the metaphor we use now: emotion so sharp it seems to pass right through the body. So when something thrills you, the word still quietly remembers a stab.
- Root meaning
- From Old English for pierced or drilled through.
- Body response
- Triggers goosebumps via tiny muscles raising hair follicles.
- Brain chemistry
- Dopamine spikes before reward, not just after.
- Chills science
- Music thrills called frisson, felt by some never.