The act or process of fluttering; a state of excitement or nervous agitation.
From flutter + -ment (suffix forming nouns of action or result, from Latin -mentum). This suffix appears in words like movement, placement, and excitement.
The -ment suffix is one of the oldest tools in English for turning verbs into nouns—it comes straight from Latin and shows how deeply the Roman language shaped English vocabulary.
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