ecstasy
Betekenis (Engels)
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- 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.
- (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
- (slang) 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, and the body is erect and inflexible.
Sinonieme
hug drug
wild joy
religious exultation
blissout
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈɛk.stə.si/
Etimologie (Engels)
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
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