euphoria
Americannoun
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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.
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Psychology. a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.
noun
Other Word Forms
- euphoric adjective
Etymology
Origin of euphoria
First recorded in 1880–85; from New Latin, from Greek euphoría “state of well-being”; eu-, -phore, -ia
Example Sentences
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria.
But the early euphoria surrounding Yunus's leadership gradually gave way to frustration at the scale of the task.
From Barron's
An unsigned Wall Street Journal column now attributed to Dow weighed customs data, coal prices and rail earnings against stock pickers’ penchant for euphoria.
It may be an especially important data point right now, when the stock market is about as expensive as it has ever been in relation to fundamentals, and signs of euphoria are visible all around.
From MarketWatch
Much more worrying, though, is that the fund managers’ wild euphoria didn’t stop at gold and silver.
From MarketWatch
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