exhilaration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=hil=a=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

exhilaration, n. [L., exhilaratio.].

•  The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being enlivened or cheerful.  [1913 Webster]

  "Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion."

Syn. -- Animation; joyousness; gladness; cheerfulness; gayety; hilarity; merriment; jollity.

THESAURUS

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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exhilaration

Cheerfulness

N cheerfulness, geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits, high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits, glee, high glee, light heart, sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast, gaiete de coeur, bon naturel, liveliness, life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse, jocundity, joviality, jollity, levity, jocularity, mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration, laughter, merrymaking, heyday, rejoicing, marriage bell, nepenthe, Euphrosyne, sweet forgetfulness, optimism, self complacency, hedonics, hedonism, cheerful, happy, cheery, cheerly, of good cheer, smiling, blithe, in spirits, in good spirits, breezy, bully, chipper, in high spirits, in high feather, happy as the day is long, happy as a king, gay as a lark, allegro, debonair, light, lightsome, light hearted, buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy, janty, jaunty, canty, hedonic, riant, sprightly, sprightful, spry, spirited, spiritful, lively, animated, vivacious, brisk as a bee, sparkling, sportive, full of play, full of spirit, all alive, sunny, palmy, hopeful, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell, joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial, jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy, blithesome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, rattling, winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom, playful, playsome, folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, jocose, jocular, waggish, mirth loving, laughter-loving, mirthful, rollicking, elate, elated, exulting, jubilant, flushed, rejoicing, cock-a-hoop, cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating, cardiac, cardiacal, pleasing, palmy, cheerfully, Int, never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, hence loathed melancholy!, begone dull care!, away with melancholy!, a merry heart goes all the day, as merry as the day is long, ride si sapis.