Euphoria is a wave of happiness so intense you feel you could float. A sense of euphoria, post-race euphoria, brief euphoria.
It is intense and short, which is what distinguishes it from contentment, and the crash afterwards is part of the pattern. In medicine, euphoria is a recognised effect of certain drugs and a symptom in some conditions, so the word is clinical as well as everyday. Note euphoric; and that the Greek means bearing well.
1nouneuphoriaA wave of happiness so intense you feel you could float.
“There was euphoria in the streets when the team won the World Cup.”
euphoria is a state of intense happiness.
The Greek is eu, well, and phero, to bear. Euphoria is being carried well: so light that you could bear anything.
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Greek euphoria means a state of bearing well — eu, well, plus pherein, to carry. Euphemism, eulogy and metaphor come from the same parts.
Ancient Greek
εὐφορίᾱ
New Latin
euphoria
English, today
euphoria
Built from
Borrowed from New Latin euphoria, from Ancient Greek εὐφορίᾱ. From New Latin euphoria, from Ancient Greek εὐφορίᾱ, from εὔφορος (“bearing well”), from εὐ- (“well”) + φέρω (“to bear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA