Meaning of ELATION
| Pronunciation: | | i'leyshun
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a feeling of joy and pride
- [n] an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
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ELATION is a 7 letter word that starts with E. |
| | Synonyms: | | high spirits |
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| | Antonyms: | | depression | | |
| | See Also: | | bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, euphoria, high, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mental state, psychological state, seventh heaven, walking on air | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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