ecstasy
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈɛkstəsi/
:
éxtasis
- Summer stretched ahead of us like an endless dream of ecstasy.
- state of ecstasy
- ecstasy of possession
If you've ever wondered, can you achieve a sense of ecstasy without drugs?
- If you've ever wondered, can you achieve a sense of ecstasy without drugs?
- Where one of the actresses in the throes of ecstasy moaned BLM.
- So I totally get the sort of agony and ecstasy of parenthood.
- And that arousal that's taking place is ecstasy.
- They had found a way to engineer the our body chemistry to create feelings of ecstasy and euphoria.
- It is enthusiasm, it is ecstasy, it is this subjective.
- Their joy, their love, their ecstasy happens little by little here and there.
- And instead it wound up in a a night of ecstasy.
- And so the more elevated the emotion, love, gratitude, freedom, bliss, ecstasy, the higher the frequency.
- It's the most, I mean, it's, it's, it's the immensity of that, the ecstasy of that moment, incredible.
- Some, some of it is really in moving into human ecstasies.
Examples
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After winning the championship, the team's fans erupted in ecstasy, celebrating their long-awaited victory.
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I am filled with tears of ecstasy, for this is the most glorious day of my life!
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I believed that I was in one of those states of ecstasy known only to the chosen few.
Fiction book (1991) -
Their joy, their love, their ecstasy happens little by little here and there.
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I was caught up in an ecstasy for which there are no words to describe.
Academic text (1997) -
And in exactly one month, I want every woman that walks into this theater to feel the same kind of ecstasy that I did.
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Her grandmother must have felt the same hunger, the same ecstasy; it was in her eyes and her smile.
Fiction book (1991) -
Medicine Wolf hugged her, enjoying the ecstasy of again being with her loved ones.
Fiction book (1992) -
For a few moments, she had tasted ecstasy, and her body had flamed with energy.
Fiction book (1992) -
"England!" he thought in "awed ecstasy" as their ship entered the Mersey.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
970
1.0
A feeling of pleasure and being satisfied
793
1.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
434
1.0
A strong feeling of happiness and eagerness, or something that causes it
78
3.2
A complete feeling of great happiness and peace
73
1.0
The feeling of pleasure you get from something
45
6.8
A very strong feeling of happiness and excitement
37
6.9
A very strong feeling of great joy
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6.5
A strong feeling of great happiness or excitement
27
6.7
A feeling of strong, happy energy and excitement
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5.5
A very happy and excited feeling after a big success
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5.8
A strong, happy feeling of excitement
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6.2
A strong feeling of excitement that makes you lose control
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7.9
A strong feeling of great joy often shown by loud shouts
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7.6
A feeling of great happiness and strong emotion
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8.2
A very strong feeling of joy or excitement
1
3.7
A feeling of complete happiness
1
3.1
A strong feeling of joy and energy that makes you unable to sit still
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4.4
A feeling of complete happiness and calm
1
3.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
A feeling of great joy and wonder
A strong feeling of joy or wonder that takes over someone
Being carried away by a very strong feeling of joy or wonder
A very strong feeling of deep happiness
A sudden strong burst of joy that people feel or show
A feeling of great happiness and pleasure
A very large amount of happiness
Antonyms
Compounds
How Joyful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ecstasy comes from Greek parts ek- 'out' and stasis 'standing', so it literally meant 'standing outside yourself' and gives a clear image of leaving your normal state. That's why ecstasy now means a state of such intense joy or emotion that you seem to be beyond your usual self.