elation
Other forms: elations
If you experience sudden very high spirits, possibly even a feeling of lightness, you are feeling great elation.
Elation is more than mere happiness — it is extreme, exhilarating joy. It has a sense of rising or expanding, even to the point of light-headedness. To help remember it, think of the (unrelated) word inflation, which has a similar sound. When you inflate a tire, you pump it up. When you are filled with elation, you are also, in a sense, "pumped up."
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a feeling of joy and pridesynonyms: high spirits, lightness
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an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depressionantonyms:depressiona mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activitytypes:higha state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcoticshigha state of sustained elationtype of:mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
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