English Dictionary

ecstasy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛk.stə.si/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 俗語 古風

Intense pleasure. / A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control. / A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

日本語の意味

激しい快楽 / 理性を超えた陶酔状態 / 神秘的または予言的な高揚感に伴うトランス状態、狂乱、歓喜

She felt a sudden ecstasy when the first notes of the symphony washed over her.

交響曲の最初の音が彼女を包み込んだとき、彼女は突然の至福を感じた。

意味（1）

Intense pleasure.

This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures.

意味（2）

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

They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

意味（3）

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

What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?

意味（4）

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

Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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

The instant I drew out my case of instruments, the lady roused herself from her ecstasy, and has never had a similar attack.

ecstasies （ plural ）