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Exhilarating vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

exhilarating | ecstasy |

As a verb exhilarating

is .

As an adjective exhilarating

is refreshingly thrilling.

As a proper noun ecstasy is

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

exhilarating

English

Verb

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  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Refreshingly thrilling.
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    Synonyms

    * cheering * gladdening * stimulating * enlivening * See also

    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