Ecstasy vs Adrenaline - What's the difference?
ecstasy | adrenaline |
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.
(hormone) An alternative name for epinephrine; the hormone and neurotransmitter.
As nouns the difference between ecstasy and adrenaline
is that ecstasy is intense pleasure while adrenaline is an alternative name for epinephrine; the hormone and neurotransmitter.As a proper noun Ecstasy
is the drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.ecstasy
English
(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)