counterexcitement en · NOUN
Etymology
From counter- + excitement.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A state of excitation in response or opposition to another such state.
As things now stand, excitement can have no effect but to create counterexcitement, and probably delay still further the object of all parties, that is, a pacific and immediate adjustment of the controversy.
1872, George Ticknor Curtis, Life of Daniel Webster, page 61:[…] that he will calmly see them beaten down by the excitement of terror, and will make no effort to raise them up by the counterexcitement of enthusiasm; […]
1886, Edward Verrall Lucas, The Life of Frederick Lucas, volume 2, page 182: