[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

elation \ela"tion\, n. l. elatio. see elate.
   a lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of
   prosperity. "felt the elation of triumph." --sir w. scott.
   1913 webster
see also:
elate 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

elation
     n 1: an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism;
          an absence of depression ant: depression
     2: a feeling of joy and pride syn: high spirits
see also:
depression high spirits 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

88 moby thesaurus words for "elation":
   abstraction, abulia, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent,
   anxiety state, apathy, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment,
   blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, buoyancy, catatonic stupor,
   celebration, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, compulsion, crowing,
   dejection, delectation, delight, depression, detachment, ecstasy,
   ecstatics, emotionalism, enchantment, euphoria, exaltation,
   excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity,
   festivity, folie du doute, gaiety, gladness, glee, gloating,
   happiness, heaven, high spirits, hoopla, hypochondria, hysteria,
   hysterics, indifference, insensibility, intoxication, joy, joyance,
   joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, lethargy, mania,
   melancholia, mental distress, merriment, obsession, overhappiness,
   overjoyfulness, paradise, pathological indecisiveness,
   preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, rapture,
   raucous happiness, ravishment, rejoicing, seventh heaven,
   show of joy, stupor, sunshine, tic, transport, triumph, twitching,
   unalloyed happiness, unresponsiveness, whoopee, withdrawal

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