euphoria

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The Word of the Day for December 13 is:

euphoria   \yoo-FOR-ee-uh\   noun
     : a feeling of well-being or elation

Example sentence:
     The whole college was swept up in the euphoria of winning the national 
basketball title, and dozens of spontaneous celebrations erupted across the 
campus and spilled out into the town.

Did you know?
     Health and happiness are often linked, sometimes even in etymologies. 
Nowadays "euphoria" generally refers to happiness, but it derives from 
"euphoros," a Greek word that means "healthy." Given that root, it's not 
surprising that in its original English uses, it was a medical term. A 1706 
quotation shows how doctors used it then: "'Euphoria,' the well bearing of the 
Operation of a Medicine, i.e. when the Patient finds himself eas'd or reliev'd 
by it." Modern physicians still use the term, but they aren't likely to 
prescribe something that will cause it. In contemporary medicine, "euphoria" 
describes abnormal or inappropriate feelings such as those caused by an illegal 
drug or an illness.





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