ecstasy

IPA: ˈɛkstʌsi

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.
(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible;
(slang) Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”) [Intense pleasure.]

Examples of "ecstasy" in Sentences

One shut his eyes in ecstasy and rolled onto his back as Richardson scratched his chin.
And Lamai, in ecstasy over this establishment of common speech, urged the calabash back under
That is what they call ecstasy, but there is no word that can tell out very plain what it means.
The toxin - Paramethoxymethamphetamine, or PMMA - is type of methamphetamine not usually associated with the drug sold under the name ecstasy.
The astonishing breadth of Herzog's filmmaking conveys the humanist's sense of wonder at the world - what he describes as the "ecstasy of observation."
Medical writers of the era even discussed a fourth clinical condition, marked by immobility, which they termed ecstasy, but this was not a state that might lead to premature burial.
Marijuana treats us to an awareness of a simultaneity of sensations, a sort of meta-pleasure, which is not surprising, given the roots of the term 'ecstasy,' as Rich Doyle writes: "Ecstasy" comes etymologically from the experience of "being beside ourselves."
(whilst the outward senses are stopped, so that they receive not outward objects with their usual quickness) in the mind, not suggested by any external objects, or known occasion; nor under any choice or conduct of the understanding at all: and whether that which we call ecstasy be not dreaming with the eyes open, I leave to be examined.