Ecstasy

/ˈɛkstəsi/ · noun

Meaning

Intense pleasure..

Definitions by Sense

1. Intense pleasure.
2. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
3. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
4. (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
5. (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
6. (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.
7. (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
8. (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.

Example Sentences

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.

He loved me well, and oft would beg me sing; / Which when I did, he on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy,

In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing. It was the joy of righteous battle that he loved—the ecstasy of victory.

an ecstasy of remorse

They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

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

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

And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That suck'd the honey of his music vows, / Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy.

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Word Forms

• ecstasies
• ecstacy
• exstacy
• exstasy
• extacy
• extasy
• ecstasying
• ecstasied

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