exhilaration
noun
Origin of exhilaration
Synonyms for exhilaration
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elation, joy, hilarity, euphoria, gladness, gaiety, sprightliness, uplift, cheerfulness, stimulation, liveliness, animation, elevation, excitation, exaltation, quickening, delight, inspiration, joyfulness, mirthExamples from the Web for exhilaration
Contemporary Examples of exhilaration
The exhilaration is short-lived, though, because Carey basically blue balls us.
Sorry, I need to have the exhilaration to enjoy it with someone else (and about 450,000 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook).
As Explorer Gene makes clear, whether inherited or learned, a taste for the exhilaration of discovery is a hard thing to shake.
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As we walked, my nerves melted and a sense of exhilaration took over.
It opens in the middle of a battlefield sequence—the only one depicted in the film—but the exhilaration is fleeting.
Historical Examples of exhilaration
It was an exhilaration even to look at that embodiment of physical development.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration.
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
Then, from an undercurrent of exhilaration, it occurred to her that she had never laughed so in all these years.
Tiverton TalesAlice Brown
Words cannot express the feeling of exhilaration that comes to one at such a time.
The Long Labrador TrailDillon Wallace
The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson