euphoria

American  

[yoo-fawr-ee-uh] / yuˈfɔr i ə /

noun

1. a state of intense happiness and self-confidence.

   She was flooded with euphoria as she went to the podium to receive her Student Research Award.

2. Psychology. a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.

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euphoria British  

/ juːˈfɒrɪk, juːˈfɔːrɪə /

noun

1. a feeling of great elation, esp when exaggerated

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Other Word Forms

• euphoric adjective

Etymology

Origin of euphoria

First recorded in 1880–85; from New Latin, from Greek euphoría “state of well-being”; eu-, -phore, -ia

Example Sentences

Much more worrying, though, is that the fund managers’ wild euphoria didn’t stop at gold and silver.

From MarketWatch

Hausmann said the initial euphoria triggered by Maduro’s capture—when he was texting furiously with Venezuelan friends—dissipated when they realized full-scale change was still a ways off.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We absolutely needed to ‘Warsh-out’ the euphoria in metals and this will give us a firmer base going forward.”

From MarketWatch

“This pattern of highly visible and self-evidently significant innovations leading to market euphoria, then to overinvestment, and thus to severe market decline has repeated again and again throughout history,” he said.

From Barron's

“This pattern of highly visible and self-evidently significant innovations leading to market euphoria, then to overinvestment, and thus to severe market decline has repeated again and again throughout history,” he said.

From Barron's

Related Words

• elation
• exhilaration
• frenzy
• glee
• joy
• jubilation
• relaxation