The word "exaltation" in translation from Latin means "rise". In psychology, it is understood as an enthusiastic, extremely excited mental state of a person, which, at times, can border on psychosis.
Exalted personality
By exaltation, some mistakenly mean pretentiousness in clothing, some special external chic in a person that distinguishes it from the surrounding gray mass. While exaltation is a character trait, temperament, and hence the manner of behavior and, to a certain extent, a person’s life style.
Sociologists interpret the concept of "exaltation" as an excited, enthusiastic state, painful liveliness. There is such an expression: "fall into exaltation." A similar state is inherent in artistic natures living on emotions. They are extremely impressionable. Love of nature, art, philosophical searches can capture an exalted personality to the core. They deeply experience the failures of relatives and friends close to them, just acquaintances, at a time when the victims themselves do not see the tragedy so vast. Compassion for the animal, lonely and unhappy in their opinion, can also lead such people to despair. An exalted lady in a fit of compassion is able to pick up an “abandoned” kitten on the street and take it home, and the next day, after he “made a puddle” in her shoe, tormenting herself and hiding from prying eyes, she will carry him back.
Also, the term "exaltation" means a short-term period of increased excitability of the nervous and muscle tissues, which is then replaced by a phase of somewhat reduced excitability. Change of mood, enthusiasm and disappointment are characteristic of people of this type. They are talkative, often argue, but rarely slip into open conflicts.
Mass exaltation
The state of exaltation can simultaneously cover large groups of people in the form of spontaneous excitement for certain events - fire, earthquake, other natural and social phenomena. The enthusiastic, extremely excited state of the masses can be caused artificially. For example, the phenomenon of mass exaltation manifests itself at concerts of pop stars, during and after major sporting events.