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Solace vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

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Solace is a related term of ecstasy.


As a noun solace

is comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

As a verb solace

is to give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

As a proper noun ecstasy is

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

solace

English

Noun

  • Comfort or consolation in a time of distress.
    • You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace .
  • A source of comfort or consolation.
  • * Rambler
    • The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

    Synonyms

    * comfort * consolation * relief * support

    Derived terms

    * solaceful * solacement

    Verb

    (solac)
  • To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
  • To allay or assuage.
  • To take comfort; to be cheered.
  • * 1593 , , IV. v. 48:
    • But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

    Anagrams

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    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

    Related terms

    * ecstatic