| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delectation, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven, trance, transport, twilight zone |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
Antonyms: |
despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | beatitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blessedness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, ecstasy, felicity, happiness, peace, serenity |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, happiness |
Synonyms: |
contentment, delectation, ecstasy, enchantment, felicity, fruition, gladness, glee, gratification, hilarity, jollity, joy, joyance, mirth, pleasure, rapture, relish, satisfaction, transport |
Antonyms: |
depression, disappointment, dismay, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | delirium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | madness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, ardor, dementia, derangement, ecstasy, enthusiasm, fervor, fever, frenzy, furor, fury, hallucination, hysteria, insanity, lunacy, mania, passion, rage, raving, transport, zeal |
Antonyms: |
balance, calmness, saneness |
| Main Entry: | elation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, buoyancy, buzz, charge, cloud nine, delight, ecstasy, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, excitement, exhilaration, exultation, glee, high, high spirits, intoxication, jollies, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, kick*, kicks, rapture, stars in one's eyes, transport, triumph, up*, upper |
Antonyms: |
depression, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
Synonyms: |
affect, affection, affectivity, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitability, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, responsiveness, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, vibes, warmth, zeal |
Antonyms: |
physicality |
| Main Entry: | enthusiasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen interest, excitement |
Synonyms: |
activity, ardency, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fieriness, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, impetuosity, intensity, interest, joy, joyfulness, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zealousness, zest, élan |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, apathy, coldness, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness |
| Main Entry: | euphoria |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, elation, exaltation, exhilaration, exultation, frenzy, glee, health, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyousness, jubilation, madness, rapture, relaxation, transport |
Antonyms: |
depression, despair, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | exaltation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great joy |
Synonyms: |
animation, bliss, delectation, delight, ecstasy, elation, elevation, euphoria, excitement, exhilaration, exultation, inspiration, intoxication, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, stimulation, transport, uplift |
Antonyms: |
depression, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | felicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, cheerfulness, contentment, delight, ecstasy, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, glee, good spirits, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, well-being |