exhilaration
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Exhilaration \Ex*hil`a*ra"tion\, n. [L., exhilaratio.]
1. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad
or cheerful; a gladdening.
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2. The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
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Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it
be a much lighter motion. --Bacon.
Syn: Animation; joyousness; gladness; cheerfulness; gayety;
hilarity; merriment; jollity.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "exhilaration":
a high, afflatus, aggravation, agitation, animating spirit,
animation, animus, arousal, arousing, beatification, beatitude,
bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bracer, bracing,
cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, cordial, delectation, delight,
divine afflatus, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, electrification,
elevation, emotion, enchantment, energizing, enlivenment, euphoria,
exacerbation, exaltation, exasperation, excitation, excitedness,
excitement, exuberance, felicity, fire, firing, fomentation,
gaiety, galvanization, genius, gladness, glee, good humor,
good spirits, happiness, heaven, high spirits, incitement,
infection, inflammation, infuriation, infusion, inspiration,
intoxication, invigoration, irritation, joy, joyance, joyfulness,
lathering up, manic state, moving spirit, overhappiness,
overjoyfulness, paradise, perturbation, pick-me-up, provocation,
quickening, rapture, rare good humor, ravishment, reanimation,
recreation, refection, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement,
reinvigoration, renewal, revitalization, revival, revivescence,
revivescency, revivification, seventh heaven, steaming up,
stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, sunshine, tonic,
transport, unalloyed happiness, uplift, vitalization, vivification,
whipping up, working up
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