agesofinnocence ([info]agesofinnocence) wrote,

Ecstasy

 
ec·sta·sy   Audio pronunciation of "ecstasy" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kst-s)
n. pl. ec·sta·sies
  1. Intense joy or delight.
  2. A state of emotion so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control: an ecstasy of rage.
  3. The trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  4. 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.]

  

"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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