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Ecstatics vs Ecstatica - What's the difference?

ecstatics | ecstatica |

As nouns the difference between ecstatics and ecstatica

is that ecstatics is while ecstatica is (obsolete|or|historical) a woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.

ecstatics

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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.