'Elation' definitions:
Definition of 'elation'
(from WordNet)
noun
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression [ant: depression]
noun
A feeling of joy and pride [syn: elation, high spirits, lightness]
Definition of 'Elation'
From: GCIDE
- Elation \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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