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Ecstasy vs Vehemence - What's the difference?

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Ecstasy is a related term of vehemence.


As a proper noun ecstasy

is (slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

As a noun vehemence is

vehemence.

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

    vehemence

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An intense concentration, force or power.
    • The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence .
  • A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
    • His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence .
  • Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * vehemency * vehement

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