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Elation

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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Bliss 76% connected

Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

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High 76% connected

To hie.

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Joy 76% connected

The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the l…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Elate 74% connected

Lifted up; raised; elevated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Elate 74% connected

Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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Lightness 92% connected

The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Delusion noun · 86% connection

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental disease noun · 86% connection

any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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Aggrandizement noun · 78% connection

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Apotheosis n. pl. · 78% connection

Glorification; exaltation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Assault noun · 78% connection

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Attollent adjective · 78% connection

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Auspicious adjective · 78% connection

Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious b…

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Azedarach noun · 78% connection

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and B…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Bed screw unknown · 78% connection

A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Bell jar unknown · 78% connection

A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lift…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Bibliolatry noun · 78% connection

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Boast noun · 78% connection

The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Box noun · 78% connection

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lifting, success, exaltation, inriation, pride.
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Bucket noun · 78% connection

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

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