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elation
CIDE DICTIONARY
elation, n. [L. elatio. See Elate.].
A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
elation
abstraction, abulia, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, buoyancy, catatonic stupor, celebration, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, compulsion, crowing, dejection, delectation, delight, depression, detachment, ecstasy, ecstatics, emotionalism, enchantment, euphoria, exaltation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, festivity, folie du doute, gaiety, gladness, glee, gloating, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hoopla, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, insensibility, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, merriment, obsession, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pathological indecisiveness, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, rapture, raucous happiness, ravishment, rejoicing, seventh heaven, show of joy, stupor, sunshine, tic, transport, triumph, twitching, unalloyed happiness, unresponsiveness, whoopee, withdrawalROGET THESAURUS
elation
Vanity
N vanity, conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, self- complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration, amour propre, selfishness, airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism, egotism, priggism, priggishness, coxcombry, gaudery, vainglory, elation, pride, ostentation, assurance, vox et praeterea nihil, cheval de bataille, coxcomb, Sir Oracle, vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock, conceited, overweening, pert, forward, vainglorious, high-flown, ostentatious, puffed up, inflated, flushed, self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated, entente, wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish, egotistic, egotistical, soi-disant, arrogant, unabashed, unblushing, unconstrained, unceremonious, free and easy, vainly, how we apples swim!, prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.For further exploring for "elation" in Webster Dictionary Online