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ecstasy

n. a feeling of intense pleasure and elation, including that experienced in some mystical states, during orgasm, with aesthetic reveries, and in drug-induced states. Such extreme euphoria also may occur in the context of a hypomanic episode or a manic episode. —ecstatic adj.

Ecstasy

n. the popular name for MDMA.

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word-superiority effect (WSE)

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