Definition of "ecstasy" in inglés

noun

1. Intense pleasure.

2. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.

   • an ecstasy of remorse

3. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

4. (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.

5. (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

6. (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.

verb

1. (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.

2. (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.