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euphoria
[ yoo-fawr-ee-uh ]
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 /
noun
- a feeling of great elation, esp when exaggerated
Derived Forms
- euphoric, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·ǰ· [yoo-, fawr, -ik, -, for, -], adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of euphoria1
Example Sentences
In the former study, runners also reported less pain and that they experienced the “runner’s high” phenomenon — in which people enter a state of euphoria after performing demanding exercise — more easily when they used cannabis.
Tovar fully expected that initial wave of punk rock euphoria to fade within a couple of years, and it did.
Matthew's response would turn the euphoria to ash.
He tells me that he spent months in prisons during Assad's regime and later moved to France; his euphoria at returning is palpable.
His implication that “euphoric markets” invariably produce financial crises, however, is questionable — markets can sustain their euphoria for years without provoking anything like a crisis.
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