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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

estasi

Pronunciation / Transliteration: es'tazi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ecstasy/ˈɛk.stə.si/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Era in uno stato di estasi dopo aver ricevuto la buona notizia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.

    "She was in a state of ecstasy after receiving the good news."
  2. 2

    A trance-like state in which a person transcends normal consciousness.

    "The dancer moved with such grace that the audience was left in ecstasy."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin ecstasis, from the Greek ekstasis meaning 'to be displaced' or 'trance', stemming from ex- ('out') and histanai ('to place'). In historical usage, it referred to a mystic or religious rapture before shifting in modern contexts to denote intense overwhelming joy or a synthetic psychoactive drug.

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