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Elation vs. Happiness — What's the Difference?

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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