Definitions for ecstasies

ecstasies ec·sta·sy

Spelling: [ek-stuh-see]
IPA: /ˈɛk stə si/

Ecstasies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in ecstasies (aceeissst).

Definitions for ecstasies

noun

  1. rapturous delight.
  2. an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.
  3. the frenzy of poetic inspiration.
  4. mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things.

Origin of ecstasies

1350-1400; Middle English extasie Middle French Medieval Latin extasis Greek ékstasis displacement, trance, equivalent to ek- ec- + stásis stasis

Examples for ecstasies

Whereupon every one goes into ecstasies, and is greatly affected.

The gentlemen of the long robe—newspaper again—are in ecstasies.

Lady Carwitchet was in ecstasies and tried to coax me into joining.

Her appearance was enough to send a friend into ecstasies, or drive an enemy to despair.

Oh, life was one scintillating cluster breast-pin of ecstasies!

Miss Casey, I am in ecstasies of—of—in short, I am glad to see you.

At the end of each sitting, Madame Raquin and Camille were in ecstasies.

The Rector could not indulge in the ecstasies of wonderment too long.

Does the soul rejoice in ecstasies because they are ecstasies?

Wheels of flesh grinding her blood into a hunger for ecstasies.

Word Value for ecstasies
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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