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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Intense joy or delight.
  2. n. A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control: an ecstasy of rage.
  3. n. The trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  4. n. Slang MDMA.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A state in which the mind is exalted or liberated as it were from the body; a state in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object, or by absorption in some overpowering idea, most frequently of a religious nature; entrancing rapture or transport.
  2. n. Overpowering emotion or exaltation, in which the mind is absorbed and the actions are controlled by the exciting subject; a sudden access of intense feeling. Specifically— Joyful, delightful, or rapturous emotion; extravagant delight: as, the ecstasy of love; he gazed upon the scene with ecstasy.
  3. n. Grievous, fearful, or painful emotion; extreme agitation; distraction: as, the very ecstasy of grief; an ecstasy of fear.
  4. n. In medicine, a morbid state of the nervous system, allied to catalepsy and trance, in which the patient assumes the attitude and expression of rapture. Also ecstasis.
  5. n. Insanity; madness.
  6. To fill with rapture or enthusiasm.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Intense pleasure.
  2. n. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
  3. n. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  4. n. slang The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
  2. n. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
  3. n. obsolete Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
  4. n. (Med.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
  5. v. obsolete To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
  2. n. a state of elated bliss
  3. n. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ekstasis), from ἐξίστημι (eksistēmi, "I displace"), from ἐκ (ek, "out") and ἵστημι (histēmi, "I stand"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English extasie, from Old French, from Late Latin extasis, terror, from Greek ekstasis, astonishment, distraction, from existanai, to displace, derange : ek-, out of; see ecto- + histanai, to place; see stā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (23)

Words with the same meaning

  1. rapture
  2. insanity
  3. madness
  4. gladness
  1. transport
  2. raptured
  3. rapt
  4. raptus
  1. paroxysm
  2. intoxication
  3. enthusiasm
  4. ravishment
  1. trance
  2. frenzy
  3. agony
  4. nympholepsy
  1. E
  2. Modern
  3. XTC
  4. Vernacular
  1. qualifier
  2. X
  3. MDMA

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. apathy
  1. calm

hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. emotional state
  1. spirit
  1. walking on air
  1. cloud nine
  1. blissfulness
  1. bliss
  1. seventh heaven
  1. MDMA
  1. methylenedioxymethamphetamine

same context (12)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. rapture
  2. agony
  1. joy
  2. awe
  1. amazement
  2. tenderness
  1. frenzy
  2. exultation
  1. terror
  2. emotion
  1. exaltation
  2. adoration

reverse dictionary (44)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. extacy
  2. extasy
  3. ecstatic
  4. ecstasis
  5. ecstasy
  6. MDMA
  7. enrapt
  8. enravishingly
  1. enravishment
  2. entrance
  3. entrancement
  4. elocation
  5. dervish
  6. exaltation
  7. nympholepsy
  8. nympholept
  1. rap
  2. rapt
  3. raptured
  4. ravish
  5. ravishing
  6. ecstasize
  7. entheasm
  8. Bellini
  1. rapture
  2. swoon
  3. gift of tongues
  4. bliss-out
  5. enthusiasm
  6. bliss
  7. tongue
  8. speak in tongues
  1. furor
  2. stigma
  3. rhapsody
  4. ravishment
  5. trance
  6. transport
  7. transportation
  8. abstract
  1. mystic
  2. dancing-mania
  3. translate
  4. vision

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  • kewpid Would you take ecstasy? Anna Wood. Feb 17, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore You love me with a passionate grace
    Which gives me ecstasy
    And there within your warm embrace,
    My spirit wanders free.
    -Junior Kennedy Aug 2, 2009

  • bilby
    You need not do anything.
    Remain sitting at your table and listen.
    You need not even listen, just wait.
    You need not even wait,
    just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
    And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
    It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
    - Franz Kafka, 'Learn To Be Quiet'.
    Feb 3, 2009

  • inkhorn What I feel when listening to Bach's BWV 1043 Allegro. Pure radiant bliss. Dec 16, 2006

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