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Definition of Exhilaration
1. Noun. The feeling of lively and cheerful joy. "He could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed"
Generic synonyms: Joy, Joyfulness, Joyousness
Specialized synonyms: Bang, Boot, Charge, Flush, Kick, Rush, Thrill, Intoxication, Titillation
Derivative terms: Excite, Exhilarate
Definition of Exhilaration
1. n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
Definition of Exhilaration
1. Noun. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exhilaration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhilaration
Literary usage of Exhilaration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"We rise from them without exhilaration, without that sense of liberated oxygen,
which is communicated by Keats, by Wordsworth, at their best. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"So far as I have experienced and noted its effect, it is promptly depressant;
and even the mental exhilaration consequent upon sudden transition to ease ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"... only held to be disgraceful, but it was the custom to drink wine largely mixed
with water, so that the result was rather exhilaration than gross excess. ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"... of one of prince Rupert's dashing, victorious skirmishes, which added In Uie
exhilaration of the festival with which the Oxford cavaliers welcomed them. ..."
5. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The extreme form of pain is Suffocation ; the opposite state is a grateful
Freshness or exhilaration. Oxygen is our aerial food ; our vital forces are ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"... and deadly fruits are intermixed with those that yield a salutary exhilaration
and nourish life; and they who would inhale their incense, ..."
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