Synonyms for elation
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Noun
1. Joy — A feeling of joy and pride
joy, happiness, high spirits, exuberance, glee, gladness, cheerfulness, delight, joyfulness, mirth, hilarity, merriment, exaltation, felicity, pleasedness, elatedness, mirthfulness, exhilaration, rapture, jollity, joviality, cheeriness
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Definitions
- n. 1
A feeling of joy and pride.
Forms
- Plural
- elations → joys, happinesses, exuberances, glees…
Example sentences
- joy Everyone shouted for joy when they heard the news.
- happiness To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
- glee Ziri rubbed his hands together with villainous glee.
- exuberance What exuberance in gesture and tone!
- lightness There's a lightness in my heart after talking with him.
- exultation He began an exultation to what he perceived as God.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| elation | rising | |
| joy | rising | |
| happiness | rising | |
| glee | rising | |
| exuberance | rising | |
| lightness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- joy1
- 4 letters
- glee1
- 5 letters
- mirth1
- 7 letters
- delight2, rapture2, jollity
- 8 letters
- felicity4, hilarity4, gladness
- 9 letters
- happiness3, lightness2, merriment, joviality, elatement
- 10 letters
- exuberance4, exaltation, exultation, joyfulness, cheeriness, elatedness
- 11 letters
- pleasedness
- 12 letters
- exhilaration5, cheerfulness3, mirthfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delight2 = 2 syllables).