Word Finder - ecstasy

definition

Intense pleasure.

definition

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

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

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

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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.

definition

To experience intense pleasure.

definition

To cause intense pleasure in.

You should have seen her ecstasy, and how he caught it for having stayed away so long.

He enters at length into the conditions of ecstasy and the yearnings that precede it.

Without a word, he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the world of ecstasy they called their bedroom.

He passed his days and nights in a condition of ecstasy.

A breeze made her curtains flutter, and she closed it, certain Claire's cries of ecstasy would soon fill the air around the mansion.

The most usual manifestation of this power is a state of ecstasy, of the nature of self-hypnotism.

No prophet, it was declared, could speak in ecstasy, that was devilish; further, only false prophets accepted gifts.

All desire to push him away vanished and she clung to him, lost in the ecstasy of his urgent lovemaking.

The lofty symbolism of his prose is frequently obscure, but his lyrical verses are distinguished for their rapturous ecstasy and beauty of expression.

I danced and capered round the tree in an ecstasy.

He could whisk her away from the pain — take her to a place of ecstasy.

He is very exact in his dates, and attained, he says, the highest stage of his ecstasy four years and three months after the beginning of his conversion.

I know not whether it was the dumps or a budding ecstasy.

His every word and movement was described with ecstasy.

His face expressed entreaty, agitation, and ecstasy.

When my partner moves it in and out too I writhe about in ecstasy !

You experience mood swings, ecstasy when you hear his voice, and despair when you don't.

While in custody, he was further charged with possession of ecstasy and possession of a firearm.

The union with transcendent deity is not so much knowledge or vision as ecstasy, coalescence,.

Over half a million young people have tried ecstasy at least once.

She loves nothing more than taking blood from the hotel guests and relishes in the opportunity of taking yours, in pure orgasmic ecstasy.

For example, ecstasy appears to affect a neurotransmitter called serotonin by reducing the amount of the chemical in the brain.

It therefore becomes a perversion as in the case of monastic ecstasy before mentioned.

However, long term exposure to ecstasy may result in increased depressive symptoms.

He also took ecstasy tablets that also affect the heart.

Her moans grow in strength from low whimpers of joy to shouts of ecstasy.

He kneaded her breasts, wanting nothing better than to suckle her until she cried out in ecstasy.

According to his cousin, Edmund Davy,' then his laboratory assistant, he was so delighted with this achievement that he danced about the room in ecstasy.

He must be an essential unity prior to this duality, a Being wholly without difference or determination; and, accordingly, the highest mode of human existence, in which the soul apprehends this absolute, must be one in which all definite thought is transcended, and all consciousness of self lost in the absorbing ecstasy.

The first time you take ecstasy is a bit like losing your virginity.

A control group of nine men and six women who had never used ecstasy were enrolled in the study for comparison.

Every one wished to see what Rousseau had seen, to experience the same ecstasy.

Tests on animals have found that ecstasy permanently reduces levels of serotonin, the chemical in the brain partly responsible for mood changes.

But there are some periods of life where there is special growth - like shamanic ecstasy.

They believed that through the cultivation of mystical ecstasy they could attain direct communion with God.

It's known as liquid ecstasy because it has similar effects to the Class A version - and also similar dangers.

You eat just for the taste, just for the sheer ecstasy of whatever it is they're going to have on that tree.

Deaths from ecstasy in Holland are only a tiny fraction of the figures for Britain.

Americans are using inhalants at more than twice the rate of ecstasy and the prescription painkiller Oxycontin, they said.

Researchers have found that Ecstasy causes extensive damage to key brain cells, called dopamine neurons.

Test results of over sixty ecstasy pills are included.

Their problems seemed to begin when their daughter, Iris, accidentally swallowed an Ecstasy tablet while attending a birthday party with her mother.

Ecstasy acts to reduce appetite and disrupts the user 's ability to regulate body temperature.

With an addiction to ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine, it seemed she was destined to go down the shadowy path that so many child stars travel.

They found four ounces of pot, an ounce of cocaine, 40 milligrams of ecstasy and three guns.

The police were called to the scene and arrested Knight on suspicion of assault, also finding hydrocodone and ecstasy on the violence prone former music mogul.

For most garden lovers, the thrill of sinking your shovel into a pile of perfect dirt is the ultimate ecstasy.

A related drug, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (better known as ecstasy or MDMA), is also widely abused.

He could whisk her away from the pain — take her to a place of ecstasy.

Ecstasy is a hallucinogenic amphetamine which is taken orally.