Word Finder - ecstasies

definition

Intense pleasure.

definition

A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.

definition

A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

definition

Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.

definition

The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

synonyms

• E
• MDMA
• X
• XTC
• eckie
• ecky
• empathy
• molly
• thizz

definition

A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.

Natasha was in ecstasies over "Uncle's" singing.

Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies.

The attitude of Paul toward glossolaly among his converts strikingly resembles Plato's opinion as expressed in the Timaeus, p. 72, of the enthusiastic ecstasies of the ancient µav ns (soothsayer).

He had risen in Maud far above his ordinary serenity of style, to ecstasies of passion and audacities of expression which were scarcely intelligible to his readers, and certainly not welcome.

He quite agreed that self-will was the enemy; The was there no quicker way of checkmating it than T an interminable course of ecstasies and austerities?

Famished persons are liable to morbid excite ment, and fall into imaginative ecstasies, in the course of which they see visions and spectres, converse with gods and angels, and are the recipients of supernatural revelations.

Christian belief must pass over not into a complacent scientific utilitarianism, but into the ecstasies of uninhibited wastage.