noun
Meaning 1
Intense pleasure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rapture, euphoria
Antonyms: agony
Standard Lemma guide
ecstasy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈɛkstəsi/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈekstəsi/
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Scotland: /ˈɛkstəse/
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Scotland: /-sɪ/
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Scotland: /-si/
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noun
Meaning 2
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- an ecstasy of remorse
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: MDMA, molly, E, eckie, ecky, XTC, X, thizz, empathy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To experience intense pleasure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To cause intense pleasure in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Adam, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA
noun
Meaning 11
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion- Charles Dickens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: emotional state, spirit
noun
Meaning 12
a state of elated bliss
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rapture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air
History
Etymology
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “to displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Across languages
Translations
140 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَشْوَة (našwa) — intense pleasure
- Bulgarian: екста́з (ekstáz) — intense pleasure
- Catalan: èxtasi — intense pleasure
- Chinese Mandarin: 狂喜 (kuángxǐ) — intense pleasure
- Chinese Mandarin: 悅 /悦 (yuè) — intense pleasure
- Czech: extáze — intense pleasure
- Danish: ekstase — intense pleasure
- Dutch: extase — intense pleasure
- Esperanto: ekstazo — intense pleasure
- Finnish: hurmio — intense pleasure
- Finnish: ekstaasi — intense pleasure
- French: extase — intense pleasure
- Galician: éxtase — intense pleasure
- German: Ekstase — intense pleasure
- Greek: έκσταση (ékstasi) — intense pleasure
- Hindi: चरमसुख (caramsukh) — intense pleasure
- Hungarian: eksztázis — intense pleasure
- Icelandic: alsæla — intense pleasure
- Ido: extazo — intense pleasure
- Indonesian: ekstase — intense pleasure
- Italian: estasi — intense pleasure
- Japanese: 狂喜 (kyōki) — intense pleasure
- Japanese: エクスタシー (ekusutashī) — intense pleasure
- Japanese: 有頂天 (uchōten) — intense pleasure
- Latin: ēlātiō — intense pleasure
- Macedonian: екста́за (ekstáza) — intense pleasure
- Macedonian: за́нес (zánes) — intense pleasure
- Māori: manahautanga — intense pleasure
- Māori: manamanahautanga — intense pleasure
- Norwegian: ekstase — intense pleasure
- Polish: ekstaza — intense pleasure
- Portuguese: êxtase — intense pleasure
- Romanian: extaz — intense pleasure
- Russian: экста́з (ekstáz) — intense pleasure
- Serbo-Croatian: zanos — intense pleasure
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstaza — intense pleasure
- Slovene: ekstaza — intense pleasure
- Spanish: éxtasis — intense pleasure
- Spanish: éxtasi (disused) — intense pleasure
- Swedish: extas — intense pleasure
- Turkish: vect — intense pleasure
- Turkish: esrime — intense pleasure
- Turkish: kendinden geçme — intense pleasure
- Ottoman Turkish: وجدان (vicdan) — intense pleasure
- Bulgarian: екста́з (ekstáz) — intense emotion
- Bulgarian: възто́рг (vǎztórg) — intense emotion
- Catalan: èxtasi — intense emotion
- Chinese Mandarin: 狂喜 (kuángxǐ) — intense emotion
- Danish: ekstase — intense emotion
- Finnish: hurmio — intense emotion
- Finnish: ekstaasi — intense emotion
- French: extase — intense emotion
- Galician: éxtase — intense emotion
- German: Ekstase — intense emotion
- Greek: έκσταση (ékstasi) — intense emotion
- Hungarian: eksztázis — intense emotion
- Ido: extazo — intense emotion
- Italian: estasi — intense emotion
- Japanese: 狂喜 (kyōki) — intense emotion
- Japanese: 恍惚 (kōkotsu) — intense emotion
- Macedonian: екста́за (ekstáza) — intense emotion
- Middle English: traunce — intense emotion
- Norwegian: ekstase — intense emotion
- Persian: وجد (vajd) — intense emotion
- Portuguese: êxtase — intense emotion
- Romanian: extaz — intense emotion
- Russian: экста́з (ekstáz) — intense emotion
- Russian: восто́рг (vostórg) — intense emotion
- Serbo-Croatian: zanos — intense emotion
- Serbo-Croatian: zanesenost — intense emotion
- Slovene: ekstaza — intense emotion
- Spanish: éxtasis — intense emotion
- Spanish: éxtasi (disused) — intense emotion
- Swedish: extas — intense emotion
- Turkish: vect — intense emotion
- Turkish: esrime — intense emotion
- Turkish: coşu — intense emotion
- Ottoman Turkish: وجدان (vicdan) — intense emotion
- Bulgarian: захлас (zahlas) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Bulgarian: унес (unes) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Catalan: èxtasi — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Danish: ekstase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Finnish: hurmos — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Finnish: ekstaasi — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Finnish: transsi — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- French: extase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Galician: éxtase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- German: Ekstase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Greek: έκσταση (ékstasi) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Hungarian: eksztázis — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Ido: extazo — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Italian: estasi — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Japanese: 法悦 (hōetsu) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Macedonian: екста́за (ekstáza) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Norwegian: ekstase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Portuguese: êxtase — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Romanian: extaz — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Russian: экста́з (ekstáz) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Russian: исступле́ние (isstuplénije) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Slovene: ekstaza — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Spanish: éxtasis — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Spanish: éxtasi (disused) — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Swedish: extas — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Turkish: istiğrak — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Turkish: dalınç — trance associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation
- Bulgarian: екстази (ekstazi) — recreational drug
- Catalan: èxtasi — recreational drug
- Chinese Mandarin: 搖頭丸 /摇头丸 (yáotóuwán) — recreational drug
- Czech: extáze — recreational drug
- Danish: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Esperanto: ekstazilo — recreational drug
- Finnish: ekstaasi — recreational drug
- French: ecstasy — recreational drug
- French: exta — recreational drug
- Galician: éxtase — recreational drug
- German: Ecstasy — recreational drug
- German: Teile — recreational drug
- German: Pillen — recreational drug
- Greek: Έκσταση (Ékstasi) — recreational drug
- Hungarian: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Icelandic: alsæla — recreational drug
- Indonesian: ekstasi — recreational drug
- Italian: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Japanese: エクスタシー (ekusutashī) — recreational drug
- Korean: 엑스터시 (ekseuteosi) — recreational drug
- Macedonian: е́кстази (ékstazi) — recreational drug
- Norwegian: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Persian: X قرص (qors-e X) — recreational drug
- Polish: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Portuguese: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Romanian: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Russian: э́кстази (ékstazi) — recreational drug
- Serbo-Croatian: ekstazi — recreational drug
- Slovene: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Spanish: éxtasis — recreational drug
- Swedish: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Swedish: E — recreational drug
- Tagalog: ecstasy — recreational drug
- Thai: ยาอี — recreational drug
- Turkish: ekstazi — recreational drug
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