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Ecstatic vs Ecstatica - What's the difference?

ecstatic | ecstatica |

As nouns the difference between ecstatic and ecstatica

is that ecstatic is (in the plural) transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy while ecstatica is (obsolete|or|historical) a woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.

As an adjective ecstatic

is feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

ecstatic

English

Alternative forms

* ecstatick (obsolete) * extatic (obsolete) * extatick (obsolete) * extatique (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
  • Extremely happy.
  • *
  • Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
    • ecstatic''' gaze; '''ecstatic trance
  • * Hammond
    • This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.

    Synonyms

    * blissful * delirious * elated * euphoric * joyful * joyous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.11:
    • I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.

    ecstatica

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, historical) A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
  • * 1891 , Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion
    • The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 256:
    • She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica ,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium.