Ecstasy
noun
A feeling of extreme happiness or joy.
She was in ecstasy after her team won the championship.
Often appears as...
- in ecstasy
- ecstasy of joy
noun
A form of a drug, often taken at parties, that makes the user feel happy, energetic, and excited.
He was arrested for possession of ecstasy.
Often appears as...
- pop ecstasy
- ecstasy pill
noun
A state of being completely carried away by intense emotional or mystical experience.
He is known to go into ecstasies over the beauty of classical music.
Often appears as...
- in ecstasies
- ecstasies of delight
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Literary
noun
A feeling of extreme happiness or joy.
She was in ecstasy after her team won the championship.
Often appears as...
- in ecstasy
- ecstasy of joy
noun
A form of a drug, often taken at parties, that makes the user feel happy, energetic, and excited.
He was arrested for possession of ecstasy.
Often appears as...
- pop ecstasy
- ecstasy pill
noun
A state of being completely carried away by intense emotional or mystical experience.
He is known to go into ecstasies over the beauty of classical music.
Often appears as...
- in ecstasies
- ecstasies of delight
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Peak Happiness
Used to express the highest level of happiness, often in special or unique occasions.
Winning the lottery put her in pure ecstasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Overwhelming Emotion
Highlights a moment where emotions are so strong that they dominate one's reaction.
He was in ecstasy as his child took her first steps.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Ecstasy might refer to an overwhelming emotion, not strictly positive—context matters.
The fans were in ecstasy, despite the pouring rain at the concert.
Pro Tip 1/3Peak Happiness
Used to express the highest level of happiness, often in special or unique occasions.
Winning the lottery put her in pure ecstasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Overwhelming Emotion
Highlights a moment where emotions are so strong that they dominate one's reaction.
He was in ecstasy as his child took her first steps.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Ecstasy might refer to an overwhelming emotion, not strictly positive—context matters.
The fans were in ecstasy, despite the pouring rain at the concert.
Pro Tip 1/3Peak Happiness
Used to express the highest level of happiness, often in special or unique occasions.
Winning the lottery put her in pure ecstasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Overwhelming Emotion
Highlights a moment where emotions are so strong that they dominate one's reaction.
He was in ecstasy as his child took her first steps.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Ecstasy might refer to an overwhelming emotion, not strictly positive—context matters.
The fans were in ecstasy, despite the pouring rain at the concert.
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Science can answer moral...
and that was the most compassionate thing I can do if you get all those parts aligned yes I think you could probably be feeling the emotion of love but again then we have to talk about well-being in a larger context you know it's all of us in this together it's not one man feeling ecstasy and then blowing
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Prohibition criminalizes...
ecstasy users my brother was no hero he loved the juice of illegal activity he lied to me for years and telling me was out of the business his death forced his neighbors to evacuate their homes for two days and that is inexcusable it's hard when someone you've loved your entire life has passions that are
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
The sow doesn't look to be in the throes of ecstasy." And she said, you can't make that conclusion, because animals don't register pain or pleasure on their faces in the same way that we do. Pigs, for example, are more like dogs. They use the upper half of the face; the ears are very expressive.
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Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
where life was fantastic. It might have been at the moment of some great, creative inspiration you might have had when you just entered this flow stage. Or when you understood something you had never done before. Or perhaps in the ecstasy of romantic love.
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Jason Silva's Origin...
or the high you get from a beautiful film when it sucks you into its wonderland, or the orgasmic ecstasy of falling in love, ineffability, magical transience spaces of mind that were characterized by feelings of selflessness and timelessness.
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Why do we love? A...
we love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires. Humans are designed to procreate, but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying. Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells
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EXCLUSIVE: A Closer Look...
mean you feel that sacredness when you go into the building and especially into the shrine itself you you see the pilgrims who are in ecstasy as they go in and they're seeing something that they believed in all their life and and
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Jason Silva on...
moments of extreme compassion static to the feelings of others it makes us feel less alone it makes us feel like we're having some kind of communion with the other and there's an ecstasy that comes with smashing our sense of
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The myth of Icarus and...
They were the first mortals ever to fly. While Daedalus stayed carefully to the midway course, Icarus was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of flight and overcome with the feeling of divine power that came with it.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:...
is really about their ecstasies, not about their everyday life. We know the temples they built, where people could come to experience a different reality. We know about the circuses, the arenas, the theaters.
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Science can answer moral...
and that was the most compassionate thing I can do if you get all those parts aligned yes I think you could probably be feeling the emotion of love but again then we have to talk about well-being in a larger context you know it's all of us in this together it's not one man feeling ecstasy and then blowing
Video examples
Prohibition criminalizes...
ecstasy users my brother was no hero he loved the juice of illegal activity he lied to me for years and telling me was out of the business his death forced his neighbors to evacuate their homes for two days and that is inexcusable it's hard when someone you've loved your entire life has passions that are
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
The sow doesn't look to be in the throes of ecstasy." And she said, you can't make that conclusion, because animals don't register pain or pleasure on their faces in the same way that we do. Pigs, for example, are more like dogs. They use the upper half of the face; the ears are very expressive.
Video examples
Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...
where life was fantastic. It might have been at the moment of some great, creative inspiration you might have had when you just entered this flow stage. Or when you understood something you had never done before. Or perhaps in the ecstasy of romantic love.
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Jason Silva's Origin...
or the high you get from a beautiful film when it sucks you into its wonderland, or the orgasmic ecstasy of falling in love, ineffability, magical transience spaces of mind that were characterized by feelings of selflessness and timelessness.
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
we love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires. Humans are designed to procreate, but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying. Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells
Video examples
EXCLUSIVE: A Closer Look...
mean you feel that sacredness when you go into the building and especially into the shrine itself you you see the pilgrims who are in ecstasy as they go in and they're seeing something that they believed in all their life and and
Video examples
Jason Silva on...
moments of extreme compassion static to the feelings of others it makes us feel less alone it makes us feel like we're having some kind of communion with the other and there's an ecstasy that comes with smashing our sense of
Video examples
The myth of Icarus and...
They were the first mortals ever to fly. While Daedalus stayed carefully to the midway course, Icarus was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of flight and overcome with the feeling of divine power that came with it.
Video examples
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:...
is really about their ecstasies, not about their everyday life. We know the temples they built, where people could come to experience a different reality. We know about the circuses, the arenas, the theaters.
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Quote examples
Franz Kafka
Novelist
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
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Stephen Hough
British Composer
Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy, the deepest human longings.
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Anais Nin
American Author
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Julie Newmar
American Actress
Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Wavy Gravy
American Activist
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Quote examples
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Quote examples
Stephen Hough
British Composer
Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy, the deepest human longings.
Quote examples
Anais Nin
American Author
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Quote examples
W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Quote examples
Julie Newmar
American Actress
Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.
Quote examples
Walter Pater
English Critic
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Quote examples
Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Quote examples
Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Wavy Gravy
American Activist
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
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