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Mirth vs Elation - What's the difference?

mirth | elation |

As nouns the difference between mirth and elation

is that mirth is the emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety while elation is an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.

mirth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
  • * 1883 ,
  • And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
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  • * 1912 , :
  • Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.
  • That which causes merriment.
  • * 1922 ,
  • Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.

    Synonyms

    * (emotion) delight, glee, hilarity, jollity

    Antonyms

    * (emotion) sadness, gloom

    Derived terms

    * mirthful * mirthfulness * mirthless * mirthlessly * mirthlessness

    elation

    English

    Noun

  • An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
  • A feeling of joy and pride.
  • A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).
  • Anagrams

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