ecstasy
ecstasy Lexical Profile
ecstasy Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An overwhelming feeling of great happiness, joyful excitement, or rapture.
"The crowd erupted in sheer ecstasy when the home team scored the winning goal in the final seconds."
A synthetic amphetamine derivative (MDMA) used illicitly as a recreational drug for its euphoric and empathogenic effects.
"Public health officials warned festival attendees about the dangers of dehydration associated with taking ecstasy."
A mystic, prophetic, or poetic trance in which a person is absorbed in spiritual contemplation and detached from ordinary awareness.
"The medieval saint wrote vividly about entering a state of religious ecstasy during her hours of solitary prayer."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French extasie, via Late Latin extasis, from Ancient Greek ekstasis ('displacement, trance, or standing outside oneself'), formed from ek- ('out') and histanai ('to cause to stand').