Ecstasy vs Gusto - What's the difference?
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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.
enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
* 1993 , , The Dictator’s Dream , Dark Horse Books
Ecstasy is a related term of gusto.
As a proper noun ecstasy
is (slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.As a verb gusto is
.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)
Synonyms
* (the drug) MDMA mali; (Modern Vernacular) E, XTC, X, mali, thizzAntonyms
* (intense pleasure) agonygusto
English
Noun
(-)- He sang with more gusto than talent.
- And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage .