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exultation

UK/ˌɛɡzʌlˈteɪʃən/US/ˌɛɡzʌlˈteɪʃən/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,670 of 15,258neutral

Exultation is triumphant delight. Wild exultation, a moment of exultation, exultation at the news.

The triumph is essential, since exultation is joy at having won rather than joy at anything pleasant. The Latin means leaping up, which is exactly what it looks like.

Definitions of exultation

  1. 1nounexultationTriumphant delight.C2

    “The players ran around the pitch in exultation after scoring the winning goal.”

exultation is a joy.

Where it comes from

Latin exsultatio comes from exsultare, to leap up, from ex plus saltare, to leap.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *sel-

  2. Latin

    exsultatio

  3. Old French

    exultacion

  4. Middle English

    exultacion

  5. English, today

    exultation

From Middle English exultacion, from Old French exultacion, from Latin exsultatio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

exultation in the wild

  • The colour associated with hasya is white and deity, Pramatha, and leads to exultation of the mind.

    Hāsya

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.