Felicity vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?
felicity | ecstasy |
Happiness.
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Apt and pleasing style in writing, speech, etc.
Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
(Semiotics/semiology) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity. eg. "The quotation was rendered with felicity."
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 7, author=Joshua Ferris, title=Table for Two, work=New York Times
, passage=The season’s main attraction, the felicities of the sun, dimmed in the light of our competition and our growing friendliness. }}
Intense pleasure.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
* Dryden
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
* Marlowe
(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.
As nouns the difference between felicity and ecstasy
is that felicity is happiness while ecstasy is intense pleasure.As proper nouns the difference between felicity and ecstasy
is that felicity is {{given name|female|from=English}} while Ecstasy is the drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.felicity
English
Noun
(-)citation
Antonyms
* (happiness) infelicityDerived terms
* felicific * felicitate * felicitation * felicitousecstasy
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(wikipedia ecstasy)Alternative forms
* extasyNoun
- This is the very ecstasy of love.
- He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
- like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
- That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
- Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
- (Mayne)