ecstasy

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To experience intense pleasure.
2. To cause intense pleasure in.

Konzepte

Ekstase

Ecstasy

Verzückung

Begeisterung

Entzückung

Exaltiertheit

Überspanntheit

XTC

Freudenrausch

Freudentaumel

Frohlocken

religiöse Ekstase

Hingerissenheit

Unbesonnenheit

Versunkenheit

Pillen

Teile

Entzücken

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɛk.stə.si/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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”).