Ecstasy Definition
ĕkstə-sē
ecstasies
noun
ecstasies
A feeling of overpowering joy; great delight; rapture.
Webster's New World
A state of being overpowered by emotion, as by joy, grief, or passion.
An ecstasy of delight.
Webster's New World
A trance, esp. one resulting from religious fervor.
Webster's New World
MDMA.
American Heritage Medicine
An illegal, mildly psychedelic derivative of amphetamine, C11H15NO2, that slows down reactions and thought; MDMA.
Webster's New World
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pronoun
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
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Other Word Forms of Ecstasy
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ecstasiesOrigin of Ecstasy
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Middle English extasie from Old French from Late Latin extasis terror from Greek ekstasis astonishment, distraction from existanai to displace, derange ek- out of ecto– histanai to place stā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Late Latin extasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ekstasis), from ἐξίστημι (eksistēmi, “I displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (histēmi, “I stand”).
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