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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elation \E*la"tion\, noun [L. elatio. See {Elate}.] A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. ''Felt the elation of triumph.'' --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elation
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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