Ecstasy
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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. The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
Example sentence: I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
Rapture
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitementIn some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to be experiencing raptureto cause others to experience raptureto take part in the Rapture
Example sentence: When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.