ecstasy

Meanings

Noun

• Intense pleasure.
• A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
• A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
• Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
• The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
• A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible;

Verb

• To experience intense pleasure.
• To cause intense pleasure in.

Origin

• From Old French estaise, from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις, from ἐξίστημι, from ἐκ and ἵστημι.