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Exalt vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

exalt | ecstasy |

As a verb exalt

is to honor; to hold in high esteem.

As a noun ecstasy is

intense pleasure.

As a proper noun Ecstasy is

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

exalt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To honor; to hold in high esteem.
    • They exalted their queen.
  • To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.
    • The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.

    Derived terms

    * exaltedly * exaltedness * exalter

    See also

    * exult

    Anagrams

    *

    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