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euphoria

[ yoo-fawr-ee-uh ]

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noun

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

euphoria

/ juːˈfɒrɪk; juːˈfɔːrɪə /

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

C19: from Greek: good ability to endure, from eu- + pherein to bear

“She was tireless and often seemed in a state of euphoria,” Pausini told police, according to the documents.

But her euphoria evaporates when she realizes he is simply trying to pretend she is a man.

“I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria,” wrote Shulgin in his journals.

Then, the post-euphoria realization: “I need to get to the gym.”

In the years since, it has become harder to maintain the euphoria of those early months of the Arab uprisings.

Everyone roughly within a radius of fifty feet—I've checked the limit a thousand times—immediately feels a sort of euphoria.

I felt the great fear-loneliness in the other Marl begin to recede and in its place came an almost overpowering euphoria.

There is no metaphysical hair-splitting in An Enemy of the People, nor sentimental talk about euphoria and going happily to death.

It was against the law for dozy-pills to produce a sensation of euphoria, of well-being.

Her hesitant voice was music, rousing in Farrell a warm and expectant euphoria that glowed like old wine in his veins.

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