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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

幸福感

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kōfukukan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Euphoria/juːˈfɔːr.i.ə/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女の顔には圧倒的な幸福感が浮かんでいた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A feeling or state of intense excitement, happiness, and elation.

    "A profound sense of euphoria swept through the crowd as their team won the championship."
  2. 2

    An exaggerated or unnatural sense of physical and mental well-being, often induced by substances or pathological conditions.

    "Certain chemical substances can produce a transient drug-induced euphoria."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word 'euphoria', meaning 'bearing well' or 'fertility', from 'eu-' (well) and 'pherein' (to bear). It entered the English language in the 17th century initially as a medical term denoting a physician's ability to bear illness easily or the alleviation of symptoms, before shifting to its current psychological meaning of intense happiness in the 19th century.

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