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,
• 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’.