I don't have an ordinary dictionary at hand, but I understand the word to be used nowadays not only to mean "feeling healthy, especially when sick", but "feeling happy, marvelous, great, fantastic", and not meant to imply any sort of mental or psychiatric pathology at all. Incidentally, from my Greek-English dictionary (not under "euphoria", which doesn't appear at all there, but under "euphoros"), I found "borne well", indicating that "bearing easily" above doesn't refer to childbearing, but rather to the more general sense of "enduring", "suffering" (in the old sense), or "holding up under". Non-technical use, now the main one, dates to 1882. "bearing well," from eu- "well" + pherein "to carry" (see infer). euphoria "power of bearing easily, fertility," from euphoros, lit. Thanks to the link to the Online Etymological Dictionary at the bottom of the page, I found a more reasonable meaning for "euphoria":ฤก727, a physician's term for "condition of feeling healthy and comfortable (especially when sick)," from Gk. This might seem like gobbledygook to the naive or inexperienced. This is not meant to be the definition of "emotion", but rather the experience of one type of emotion, commonly referred to as "euphoria". It means that the experience transcends common human comprehension, and is beyond the normal experience of "happiness". ![]() This feeling can be expressed in various ways such a person experiencing euphoria saying that they "felt oneness with god and all life". The sense of overwhelm means that the experience is inexplicable, often uncontrollable, and beyond comprehension. I have been "overwhelmed" many times in my life, sometimes by sadness, but often by euphoria. It is clear in the context that someone is trying to give verbal expression to an emotion that they are experiencing. Are you really trying to bring clarity to the subject, or just venting? This works for me: "the term is often colloquially used to give verbal expression to an emotion which is experienced as an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of wellbeing" Yes, Unfree, no one is trying to "define emotion". Unfree, you do not seem to understand the Wikipedia Talkpage guidelines. "the term is often colloquially used to define emotion as an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of wellbeing" How preposterous! How often, in colloquial speech, do we attempt to define "emotion"? Never! If one ever attempted to do such a thing, wouldn't it depend on the sentence we used "euphoria" in? How can one be "overwhelmed" by a sense of being well? What does happiness transcend? Since when does "emotion" have any such definition? Gosh, this gobbledygook is driving me nuts! Unfree ( talk) 03:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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