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Elation

Elation Meaning & Definition
Elation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elation?

[n] a feeling of joy and pride
[n] an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elation: high spirits

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elation: abstraction | abulia | alienation | anxiety | anxiety equivalent | anxiety state | apathy | beatification | beatitude | bewitchment | blessedness | bliss | blissfulness | buoyancy | catatonic stupor | celebration | cheer | cheerfulness | cloud nine | compulsion | crowing | dejection | delectation | delight | depression | detachment | ecstasy | ecstatics | emotionalism | enchantment | euphoria | exaltation | excitement | exhilaration | exuberance | exultation | felicity | festivity | folie du doute | gaiety | gladness | glee | gloating | happiness | heaven | high spirits | hoopla | hypochondria | hysteria | hysterics | indifference | insensibility | intoxication | joy | joyance | joyfulness | jubilance | jubilation | jubilee | lethargy | mania | melancholia | mental distress | merriment | obsession | overhappiness | overjoyfulness | paradise | pathological indecisiveness | preoccupation | psychalgia | psychomotor disturbance | rapture | raucous happiness | ravishment | rejoicing | seventh heaven | show of joy | stupor | sunshine | tic | transport | triumph | twitching | unalloyed happiness | unresponsiveness | whoopee | withdrawal

See Also | bliss | blissfulness | cloud nine | euphoria | high | joy | joyfulness | joyousness | mental state | psychological state | seventh heaven | walking on air

Elation In Webster's Dictionary

\E*la"tion\, n. [L. elatio. See {Elate}.] A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. ``Felt the elation of triumph.'' --Sir W. Scott.

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