Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exhilaration

Exhilaration , noun

[Latin, exhilaratio.]

1.
The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
2.
The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. — Bacon