Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.

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An instance of exuberant behaviour.

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)