Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being stimulated, refreshed, or elated: "Few Yosemite visitors ever see snow avalanches and fewer still know the exhilaration of riding on them” ( John Muir).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exhilarating, or of enlivening or cheering; the act of making glad or cheerful.
- n. The state of being enlivened or cheerful; elevation of spirits; joyous enlivenment.
- n. Synonyms Animation, joyousness, gaiety, hilarity, glee.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
- n. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
- n. The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
Examples
“Infinite was moved within Himself, and shone and coruscated in that circle, from the centre outward and again to the centre: and that commotion we term exhilaration; and from that exhilaration, variously divided within Himself, was generated the potency of determining the fashioning of the letters.”
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies.”
“You have to admire the joy of one of the four men soaring through the familiar "little swans" variation from "Swan Lake," his smile beaming to the balconies, wide-mouthed in exhilaration and -- in contrast to his colleagues, who were shooting him well-timed disapproving looks -- luxuriating like a little boy in the sheer thrill of flying through space.”
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“But, for all that, there was a certain exhilaration about her.”
“As with other great conductors this young maestro senses, seizes on and communicates every scintilla of its pastoral joy, lugubrious shtetl memory, piquant nostalgia and sky-touching exhilaration, which is not to say that he slights delicacy or subtlety.”
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“In a recent article, he recalled the exhilaration of shooting someone as a teenager, and being intoxicated by the rush of living out the I fe he'd seen on screen in "The Godfather.”
“On the second, Larry Hughes lofted the ball high for James, who soared, jammed it in, then came down screaming for several seconds in exhilaration.”
“First exhilaration occurs when a young scientist compares alternative ideas or models with observations and discovers how something works.”
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“The only thing I would confess to is what Winston Churchill, who was an early master of our craft, described as the exhilaration of being shot at without result.”
“The title of my remarks makes reference to the end of the Cold War, and I'm sure everyone in this room recalls the exhilaration with which the world greeted the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in November, 1989.”
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