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euphoria

[ yoo-fawr-ee-uh ]

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.


euphoria

/ juːˈfɒrɪk; juːˈfɔːrɪə /

noun

  1. a feeling of great elation, esp when exaggerated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • euphoric, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ·ǰ· [yoo-, fawr, -ik, -, for, -], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of euphoria1

First recorded in 1880–85; from New Latin, from Greek ܱǰí “state of well-being”; eu-, -phore, -ia
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Word History and Origins

Origin of euphoria1

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

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Tovar fully expected that initial wave of punk rock euphoria to fade within a couple of years, and it did.

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Matthew's response would turn the euphoria to ash.

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He tells me that he spent months in prisons during Assad's regime and later moved to France; his euphoria at returning is palpable.

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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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