Exhilaration
[ɪgzɪlə'reɪʃ(ə)n;eg-] or [ɪg,zɪlə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; 'he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed'.
Checker: Zelig--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
(n.) The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
Checker: Phelps
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cheering, enlivening, animating.[2]. Animation, gayety, hilarity, glee, cheer, gladness, joyousness, cheerfulness, good humor, good spirits, high spirits.
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Examples
- His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He inhaled it, and experienced a sense of exhilaration. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The exhilaration was all gone. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He then returned to the punch, in the highest state of exhilaration. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewell of Allenham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewell of you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He knew no fear, as we know it; his little heart beat the faster but from the excitement and exhilaration of adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There was no exhilaration in crossing the bridge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You might as well talk abstractly about the goodness or badness of this universe which contains happiness, pain, exhilaration and indifference in a thousand varying grades and quantities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She trembled, as she stood in her room, with excitement and awful exhilaration. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Sol