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I want a funky word for the feeling of thrill when doing something for the first time. The word should contain 'first'

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    More often encountered in the negative, there's This ain't my first rodeo, where (one's) first rodeo is defined as one's first time doing something. Feb 11, 2016 at 18:54
  • Butterflies in stomach.
    – k1eran
    Feb 11, 2016 at 22:42
  • Can you give a phrase with the word you want left blank please?
    – Dan
    Feb 11, 2016 at 23:09
  • 'Anticipation' is often used in this sense.
    – Joe L.
    Feb 12, 2016 at 5:24

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Consider first-night nerves

3(nerves) Feelings of nervousness: his first-night nerves soon disappeared

I don't normally get stage fright or nerves before a performance but today I'm like a child on Christmas Eve.

First-night nerves aside, what she fears most is being left alone… without her Tim.

He was visibly, rather endearingly, anxious, shaking with nerves at some points; she kept erupting into fits of maniacal chuckles at some secret joke.

From http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/nerve

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There is "First show jitters" or "Pre show jitters" or even "first day jitters".

If you don't fancy the use of "first", then maybe "ecstatic"?

"The way he kissed her neck, she felt spiralling out of control, ecstatic."

"With a final click, his bionic leg just finished the automatic instalation, his brain recognized a difference, ecstatic, he got up for the first time without his cane."

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