Elation is a great rush of joy and pride. A feeling of elation, sheer elation, elation gave way to exhaustion.
It is bigger than happiness and shorter-lived, and it follows achievement rather than pleasure. In psychiatry it has a narrower use, where sustained elation without cause is a sign worth taking seriously.
1nounelationA great rush of joy and pride.
“There was elation in the streets when the team won the World Cup.”
elation is a joy.
eLATion → the joy of an ELECTION night
The night of the election, when the whole room comes up off the floor.
hooks ontoelection
Latin elatio means a lifting up, from efferre, to carry out or raise.
Proto-Indo-European
*telh₂- (bear)
Latin
ēlātiōnem
Old French
elacion
Middle English
elacioun
English, today
elation
Built from
From Middle English elacioun, from Old French elacion, from Latin ēlātiōnem, accusative singular of ēlātiō (“exaltation, elevation; pride, elation”), from ēlātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA