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Transfiguration vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

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Transfiguration is a related term of ecstasy.


As proper nouns the difference between transfiguration and ecstasy

is that transfiguration is (label) an annual feast day celebrating the miracle when the face of jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles observed on august 6th (gregorian) or 19th (julian) while ecstasy is (slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

transfiguration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a large change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis
  • a change that exalts or glorifies

    • 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