[ˈɛkstəsi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement
(e.g: there was a look of ecstasy on his face)

- an emotional or religious frenzy or trance-like state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence

- 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


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