different between feeling vs ecstasy

English

Etymology

From Middle English felyng, equivalent to feel +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fi?l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fil??/
• Rhymes: -i?l??

Adjective

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)

1. Emotionally sensitive.

   Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.

2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

   He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Translations

Noun

feeling (plural feelings)

1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.

   The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.

2. Emotion; impression.

   The house gave me a feeling of dread.

3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

   You really hurt my feelings when you said that.

4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

   Many people still have feelings for their first love.

5. Intuition.

   He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.

   I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.

   • 1987, The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

     Got on a lucky one

     Came in eighteen to one

     I've got a feeling

     This year's for me and you

6. An opinion, an attitude.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

feeling

1. present participle of feel

Derived terms

• feeling no pain

Anagrams

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.li?/

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch

Anagrams

• églefin

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi.li?/

Noun

feeling m (invariable)

1. an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• filing

Noun

feeling m

1. feeling, hunch

Synonyms

• osje?aj

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filin/, [?fi.l?n]

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. feeling, hunch
2. spark; attraction; feeling

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)

1. 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,

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.
   • 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?

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.

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

6. (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)

1. (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
2. (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)

1. ecstasy (MDMA, recreational drug)

Portuguese

Noun

ecstasy m (usually uncountable, plural ecstasys)

1. ecstasy (drug)