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ekstasis

/ˈɛkstəsɪs/

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Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis, “displacement, cession, trance”)

noun ekstases · ecstasis

countable, uncountable The state of being beside oneself or rapt out of oneself. [1914], 1995, Holden E Sampson, The True Mystic http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=Qqm7RQvTQ3sC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&sig=5lVGuxEcsuYip2s9t2xgSTWp4nc In Psychics the strange phenomenon of “Katalepsis” experienced by developed “trance-mediumship” bears so close a resemblance, physically, to E

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@misc{ekstasis_2026,
  title = {ekstasis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ekstasis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}