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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-43/
- Published: 2020-03-12T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-09T07:02:05.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

euphoria (noun) – A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/euphoria?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 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 euphoria was a medical term. Its entry in an early 18th-century dictionary explains it as “the well-bearing of the Operation of a Medicine; that is, when the Sick Person 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 and psychology, euphoria can describe abnormal or inappropriate feelings such as those caused by an illicit drug or an illness.

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