Elation vs. Happiness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Elation and Happiness
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Elation
To fill with great joy or happiness; delight
We were elated by the good news.
Happiness
The term happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, eudaimonia, flourishing and well-being.Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.
Elation
Elated.
Happiness
Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy
A happy child.
The happiest day of my life.
Elation
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
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Happiness
Cheerful; willing
Happy to help.
Elation
A feeling of joy and pride.
Happiness
Characterized by good luck
A happy sequence of events.
Elation
(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).
Happiness
Being especially well-adapted; felicitous
A happy turn of phrase.
Elation
A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.
Happiness
Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination
Trigger-happy.
Elation
An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
Happiness
Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination
Money-happy.
Clothes-happy.
Elation
A feeling of joy and pride
Happiness
(uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy.
Happiness
Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
Happiness
Good luck; good fortune.
Happiness
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
Happiness
Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
Happiness
An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
Happiness
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; - used especially of language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,For there's a happiness, as well as care.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Others in virtue place felicity,But virtue joined with riches and long life;In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;For then, and not till then, he felt himself,And found the blessedness of being little.
Happiness
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Happiness
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
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