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ecstasy noun [ ˈɛkstəsi ]

• an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
• "there was a look of ecstasy on his face"
Similar: rapture, bliss, elation, euphoria, cloud nine, seventh heaven, transports, rhapsodies, joy, joyousness, jubilation, exultation, heaven, paradise, delight, the top of the world,
Opposite: misery,
• an emotional or religious frenzy or trance-like state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
• an amphetamine-based recreational drug having euphoric effects, typically taken in the form of a pill and particularly associated with clubbing and dance music subcultures.
Origin: late Middle English (in ecstasy (sense 2)): from Old French extasie, via late Latin from Greek ekstasis ‘standing outside oneself’, based on ek- ‘out’ + histanai ‘to place’.


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