Perfervid

“Perfervid” (pur-FUR-vid) – from the Latin for “to boil” – means impassioned, marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.

Example (as used by Mordecai Richler in The New York Times): “Years ago Philip Roth published a perspicacious essay on the pitfalls of writing satire, the gist of which was that the daily absurdities in our morning newspapers too often outdid even a novelist’s most perfervid imaginings.”

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