excitant

excitant (comparative more excitant, superlative most excitant)

1. exciting; stimulating

excitant (plural excitants)

1. Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85:

     Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ək.siˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ək.siˈtant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ek.siˈtant]

excitant

1. gerund of excitar

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.si.tɑ̃/

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excitant

1. present participle of exciter

excitant (feminine excitante, masculine plural excitants, feminine plural excitantes)

1. exciting (causing stimulation or excitement)
2. arousing

excitant m (plural excitants)

1. excitant; stimulant

• “excitant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

excitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of excitō

Borrowed from French excitant.

excitant m or n (feminine singular excitantă, masculine plural excitanți, feminine and neuter plural excitante)

1. exciting