Associations to the word «Elation»

Wiktionary

ELATION, noun. An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
ELATION, noun. A feeling of joy and pride.
ELATION, noun. (geometry) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).

Dictionary definition

ELATION, noun. An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression.
ELATION, noun. A feeling of joy and pride.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin