How to say "euphoria" in Japanese
- nounThe straight borrowing of the English word; choose it when you want that foreign flavor, as in stylish or technical writing about intense emotional highs.
- 多幸感たこうかんnounEuphoria as a feeling of abundant happiness or well-being; found in psychological and medical writing, but also usable for a strong sense of happiness in ordinary description.
- 多幸症たこうしょうnounA medical term: euphoria understood as a symptom or condition, as in psychiatric description. It is not the word for everyday joy; ordinary readers will rarely need it.
- 幸福感こうふくかんnounCovers a feeling of happiness and a sense of well-being first; its 'euphoria' rendering fits when euphoria amounts to a deep feeling of happiness rather than a dramatic high.
- 天にも昇る気持ちてんにものぼるきもちexpression, nounAn idiom, literally 'a feeling of rising to heaven': extreme happiness, seventh heaven. It suits vivid description of the soaring joy felt at a wonderful moment.
Choose 「ユーフォリア」 for the borrowed English term, 多幸感 for a feeling of abundant happiness, 多幸症 strictly for euphoria as a medical symptom, 幸福感 for ordinary happiness or well-being, and 「天にも昇る気持ち」 for vivid, soaring joy.
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