How to say "ecstasy" in Japanese
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- 恍惚こうこつnoun, adverb (with と), taru-adjectiveCovers the intense, trance-like sense of ecstasy: a state of rapture in which one is transported beyond ordinary awareness, as in mystical or religious experience or when overwhelmed by bliss or beauty.
- 有頂天うちょうてんnoun, na-adjectiveExpresses elation, the feeling of being overjoyed or on top of the world; originally the highest heaven in Buddhist cosmology, it suits someone beside themselves with delight rather than a mystic trance.
- 夢中むちゅうnoun, na-adjectiveCovers being so absorbed in or carried away by something that one forgets oneself: engrossed in a hobby, wild about a person. Its ecstasy is this swept-away, engrossed state, not mystical rapture.
Use 恍惚 for deep, trance-like rapture, 有頂天 for elated, over-the-moon joy, and 夢中 for being carried away or absorbed in what one loves.
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