Intensity vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

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Intensity is a related term of ecstasy.

As a noun intensity

is the quality of being intense.

As a proper noun ecstasy is

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

intensity

English

Noun

(intensities)

the quality of being intense

the degree of strength

(physics) time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance

(optics) can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance

(astronomy) syn. radiance

(geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.

ecstasy

English

(wikipedia 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