frisson

a moment of intense excitement; a shudder


This word appears in a recent New Yorker magazine: “All this has a certain fascination, and, as ‘Troilus and Cressida’ unfolds, the ‘r’s, the elided pronouns, and the longer, tenser vowels give the audience a frisson of extra drama.”

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