Difference between Ecstasy and Rapture

What is the difference between Ecstasy and Rapture?

Ecstasy as a noun is intense pleasure. while Rapture as a noun is extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement

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.

We hope you now know whether to use Ecstasy or Rapture in your sentence.

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