Rhapsody vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?
rhapsody | ecstasy |
An ancient Greek epic poem (or part of one) suitable for uninterrupted recitation.
(obsolete) A random collection or medley; a miscellany or confused string of stories, words etc.
*, vol.1, p.138:
*:This concerneth not those mingle-mangles of many kinds of stuffe, or as the Grecians call them Rapsodies , that for such are published.
An exalted or exaggeratedly enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech or writing.
(music) An instrumental composition of irregular form often incorporating improvisation.
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 a noun rhapsody
is an ancient greek epic poem (or part of one) suitable for uninterrupted recitation.As a proper noun ecstasy is
(slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.rhapsody
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(wikipedia rhapsody)Noun
(rhapsodies)Anagrams
*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)