a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
- with the elatedness of someone who had just won the lottery, he announced that his girlfriend had accepted his marriage proposal
cloud nine, ecstasy, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, heaven, high, intoxication, paradise, rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, swoon, transport
exaltation
blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, delight, enchantment, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, pleasure
reverie, trance
inspiration
fervor, frenzy, madness, passion
cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness
misery, sadness, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness
blues, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, melancholy, mopes
