euphoria

English

WOTD – 12 July 2010

Etymology

From New Latin euphoria, from Ancient Greek εὐφορίᾱ (euphoríā), from εὔφορος (eúphoros, “bearing well”), from εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo͞o-fôr′-ē-ə, IPA^(key): /juːˈfɔːɹi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiə

Noun

euphoria (countable and uncountable, plural euphorias)

1. An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.

   The runner was in (a state of) absolute euphoria after winning his first marathon.

2. (LGBT) Ellipsis of gender euphoria.

Antonyms

• dysphoria
• bad trip

Derived terms

Derived terms

• euphoria boner
• euphoriant
• euphoric
• euphorically
• euphorigenic
• ewphoria, ewwphoria
• gender euphoria

Translations

an excited state of joy

• Albanian: eufori (sq) f
• Arabic: اِبْتِهَاج m (ibtihāj), نَشْوَة f (našwa)
• Armenian: էյֆորիա (hy) (ēyforia)
• Asturian: euforia f
• Azerbaijani: eyforiya
• Belarusian: эйфары́я f (ejfarýja)
• Bulgarian: еуфо́рия f (eufórija)
• Catalan: eufòria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欣快症 (zh) (xīnkuàizhèng), 狂喜 (zh) (kuángxǐ), 極樂／极乐 (zh) (jílè)

• Czech: euforie f
• Danish: eufori (da) c
• Dutch: euforie (nl) f
• Esperanto: eŭforio
• Estonian: eufooria
• Finnish: euforia (fi)
• French: euphorie (fr) f, (colloquial) pêche (fr) f, (colloquial) frite (fr) f
• Galician: euforia (gl) f
• Georgian: ეიფორია (eiporia)
• German: Euphorie (de) f, Hochgefühl (de) n, Glücksgefühl (de) n
• Greek: ευφορία (el) f (efforía)
• Hebrew: אוּפוֹרְיָה (he) f (ofórya)
• Hungarian: eufória (hu)
• Indonesian: suka cita, kegembiraan (id)
• Italian: euforia (it) f
• Japanese: 多幸感 (ja) (たこうかん, takōkan), ユーフォリア (yūforia)
• Kazakh: эйфория (éiforiä)
• Korean: 다행감(多幸感) (dahaenggam), 행복감(幸福感) (haengbokgam)
• Kyrgyz: эйфория (eyforiya)
• Latvian: eiforija f
• Lithuanian: euforija (lt) f
• Macedonian: еуфорија f (euforija)
• Maori: manahau, harikoa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eufori m

• Occitan: euforia (oc) f
• Persian: سرخوشی (fa) (sarxoši), خوشی (fa) (xoši), نشاط (fa) (nešât)
• Polish: euforia (pl) f
• Portuguese: euforia (pt) f
• Romanian: euforie (ro) f
• Russian: эйфори́я (ru) f (ejforíja), ра́достное настрое́ние n (rádostnoje nastrojénije), припо́днятое состоя́ние n (pripódnjatoje sostojánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀схит m, усхиће́ње n, еуфо̀рија f

  Roman: ùshit (sh) m, ushićénje n, eufòrija (sh) f

• Slovak: eufória f
• Slovene: evforija f
• Spanish: euforia (es) f
• Swedish: eufori (sv) c
• Turkish: öfori (tr)
• Ukrainian: ейфорі́я f (ejforíja)
• Uzbek: eyforiya (uz)

Further reading

• “euphoria”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “euphoria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.