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Ecstasy

//ˈek.stə.si// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Intense pleasure. countable, uncountable

    "This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”). alt-of, slang, uncountable
  3. 3
    street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine wordnet
  4. 4
    A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control. countable, uncountable

    "an ecstasy of remorse"

  5. 5
    a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion wordnet
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  1. 6
    A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation. countable, uncountable

    "What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?"

  2. 7
    a state of elated bliss wordnet
  3. 8
    Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy."

  4. 9
    The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form. countable, slang, uncountable
  5. 10
    A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible. countable, dated, uncountable

    "The instant I drew out my case of instruments, the lady roused herself from her ecstasy, and has never had a similar attack."

Verb
  1. 1
    To experience intense pleasure. intransitive
  2. 2
    To cause intense pleasure in. transitive

    "Ali Agha jumped up, seized the visitor by the shoulder, compelled him to sit down, and, ecstasied by the old man's horror at the scene, filled a tumbler, and with the usual grotesque grimaces insisted upon his drinking it."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

Etymology 2

From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

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