ecstaticus
Ecstaticus is a term used in philosophy, religious studies, and literary analysis to denote the experience of intense joy, trance, or rapture commonly described as ecstasy. In English-language scholarship it appears mainly as a loanword from Latin, and occasionally in translations of earlier Greek and Latin sources.
Derived from Latin ecstaticus, which in turn derives from Greek ekstasis (standing outside oneself). The adjective
In classical and medieval texts, ecstaticus is used to describe visions of prophets, mystic raptures, or poets
In contemporary scholarship, the concept is studied as an altered state of consciousness with affective, cognitive,
Overall, ecstaticus functions as a historical and cross-cultural descriptor rather than a fixed scientific term, illustrating