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   Ec·sta·sy

   /ˈekstəsē/

   

   noun

   • 1. an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement: "there was a look of ecstasy on his face"
   • 2. an emotional or religious frenzy or trance-like state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
   • 3. an amphetamine-based recreational drug having euphoric effects, typically taken in the form of a pill and particularly associated with clubbing and dance music subcultures.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in ecstasy (sense 2)): from Old French extasie, via late Latin from Greek ekstasis ‘standing outside oneself’, based on ek- ‘out’ + histanai ‘to place’.

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