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What is the difference between ecstasy and euphoria?

ecstasy | euphoria |

As nouns the difference between ecstasy and euphoria

is that ecstasy is intense pleasure while euphoria is an excited state of joy, a good feeling, a state of intense happiness.

As a proper noun Ecstasy

is the drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

ecstasy

English

(wikipedia ecstasy)

Alternative forms

* extasy

Noun

  • Intense pleasure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the very ecstasy of love.
  • * Milton
    • He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
  • A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
  • * Dryden
    • like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
  • 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
    • That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
  • * Marlowe
    • Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
  • (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.
    • (Mayne)

    Synonyms

    * (the drug) MDMA mali; (Modern Vernacular) E, XTC, X, mali, thizz

    Antonyms

    * (intense pleasure) agony

    Related terms

    * ecstatic

    euphoria

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excited state of joy, a good feeling, a state of intense happiness.

    • Antonyms

    * dysphoria * bad trip

    Derived terms

    * euphoriant * euphoric * euphorically * euphorigenic

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