exhilaration

noun

Etymology

From exhilarate + -ion.

  1. derived from *selh₂-
  2. derived from ἱλαρός
  3. derived from *h₁eǵʰs
  4. derived from exhilarō
  5. suffixed as exhilaration — “exhilarate + -ion

Definitions

  1. The act of enlivening the spirits

    The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

  2. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exhilaration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01exhilaration02exhilarated03exhilarate04gladden05glad06bright07brilliant08saturated09soaked10inebriated

A definitional loop anchored at exhilaration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at exhilaration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA