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Paradise vs Exhilaration - What's the difference?

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Paradise is a related term of exhilaration.


As a proper noun paradise

is (religion) heaven.

As a noun exhilaration is

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

paradise

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
  • * Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
    • To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
  • * Longfellow
    • It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
  • (figuratively) A very pleasant place.
    • an island paradise in the Caribbean
  • (figuratively) A very positive experience.
  • (architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  • A churchyard or cemetery.

    • Synonyms

    * haven * heaven * utopia

    Derived terms

    * bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradise

    Related terms

    * parvis

    See also

    * Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-la

    Verb

    (paradis)
  • To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
    • (Marston)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    exhilaration

    English

    Noun

  • The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
  • The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.

    • Related terms

    * exhilarate * hilarious * Hilary