different between exultation vs ecstasy
exultation
English
Etymology
From Old French exultacion, from Latin exsultatio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z?l?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: ex?ul?ta?tion
Noun
exultation (countable and uncountable, plural exultations)
- The act of exulting; great joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight
- Synonym: triumph
Translations
French
Noun
exultation f (plural exultations)
- exultation
Related terms
- exulter
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ecstasy
English
Alternative forms
- extasy (obsolete)
- ecstacy (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ékstasis), from ???????? (exíst?mi, “I displace”), from ?? (ek, “out”) and ?????? (híst?mi, “I stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k.st?.si/
Noun
ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)
- Intense pleasure.
- Antonym: agony
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 1, [1]
- This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 623-5, [2]
- He loved me well, and oft would beg me sing; / Which when I did, he on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy,
- 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.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, Act IV, Scene I, [4]
- What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, Act IV, Scene I, [4]
- (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
- c. 1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, [5]
- Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, [6]
- And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That suck'd the honey of his music vows, / Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy.
- c. 1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, [5]
- (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
- Synonyms: MDMA, molly, (modern vernacular) E, eckie, ecky, XTC, X, thizz, (obsolete) empathy
- (medicine, dated) 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mayne to this entry?)
Related terms
- ecstatic
Translations
Verb
ecstasy (third-person singular simple present ecstasies, present participle ecstasying, simple past and past participle ecstasied)
- (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
- (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
Anagrams
- Cassety, cytases
Dutch
Alternative forms
- xtc
Etymology
Borrowed from English ecstasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k.st?.si/, /??k.sti.si/
- Hyphenation: ec?sta?sy
Noun
ecstasy m (uncountable)
- ecstasy (MDMA, recreational drug)
Portuguese
Noun
ecstasy m (usually uncountable, plural ecstasys)
- ecstasy (drug)
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