Phenethylamine vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?
phenethylamine | ecstasy |
(uncountable, organic compound) An aromatic amine which is a colorless liquid at room temperature.
(countable, organic chemistry) One of a group of compounds derived from phenethylamine .
(neurotransmitter) A monoamine neurotransmitter and neuromodulator found in the brain.
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 phenethylamine and ecstasy
is that phenethylamine is (uncountable|organic compound) an aromatic amine which is a colorless liquid at room temperature while ecstasy is intense pleasure.phenethylamine
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(wikipedia phenethylamine)Noun
ecstasy
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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)