Definition of ecstasy

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ec·sta·sy    (kst-s) KEY 

NOUN:
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.

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ETYMOLOGY:
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