- Intense joy or delight.
- A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control: an ecstasy of rage.
- The trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
- Slang. MDMA.
[Middle English extasie, from Old French, from Late Latin extasis, terror, from Greek ekstasis, astonishment, distraction, from existanai, to displace, derange : ek-, out of; see ecto- + histanai, to place; see st
- in Indo-European Roots.]
