Beatitude vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?
beatitude | ecstasy | Synonyms |
(uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
* 1887 , Arthur Conan Doyle, , part 1, chapter 6
Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).
Intense pleasure.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
* Dryden
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
* Shakespeare
* Marlowe
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
Beatitude is a synonym of ecstasy.
As a noun beatitude
is bliss, beatitude.As a proper noun ecstasy is
(slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.beatitude
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Noun
(en noun)- Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.
ecstasy
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(wikipedia ecstasy)Alternative forms
* extasyNoun
- This is the very ecstasy of love.
- He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
- like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
- That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
- Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
- (Mayne)