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- Dictionaryecstasy/ˈɛkstəsi/
noun
- 1. an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement: "there was a look of ecstasy on his face"
- 2. an emotional or religious frenzy or trance-like state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
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ECSTASY definition: 1. a state of extreme happiness, especially when feeling pleasure: 2. a powerful drug that makes…. Learn more.
The meaning of ECSTASY is a state of overwhelming emotion; especially : rapturous delight. How to use ecstasy in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ecstasy.
an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling. Synonyms: elation, bliss, delight. the frenzy of poetic inspiration. mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things. (often initial capital letter) Slang. MDMA ( def ). ecstasy.
If you’ve ever been so happy that the rest of the world seemed to disappear, you’ve felt ecstasy — a feeling or state of intensely beautiful bliss. Ecstasy will make you want to write poetry. It happened to John Donne, whose poem “The Ecstasy” is about the feeling of the whole world vanishing when he looks into his lover’s eyes.
[countable, uncountable] (in religion) a state in which somebody experiences extreme emotions, through prayer and meditation, that take them beyond the limits of the individual self. She received visions and ecstasies, sharing in the saint's sufferings. (also Ecstasy) [uncountable] (abbreviation E)
ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation share a sense of being taken or moved out of one’s self or one’s normal state, and entering a state of intensified or heightened feeling.
1. Intense joy or delight. 2. A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control: an ecstasy of rage. 3. The trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation. 4. often Ecstasy Slang MDMA.
ECSTASY meaning: 1. a feeling of extreme happiness: 2. an illegal drug that makes you feel happier and more active. Learn more.
Definitions of 'ecstasy' 1. Ecstasy is a feeling of very great happiness. [...] 2. Ecstasy is an illegal drug that makes people feel happy and energetic. [...] More. Synonyms of 'ecstasy' • rapture, delight, joy, enthusiasm [...] More. Collocations with the word 'ecstasy' religious ecstasy. Examples of 'ecstasy' in a sentence.
Ecstasy suggests an intensification of emotion so powerful as to produce a trancelike dissociation from all but the single overpowering feeling: an ecstasy of rage, grief, love. Rapture shares the power of ecstasy but most often refers to an elevated sensation of bliss or delight, either carnal or spiritual: the rapture of first love.
