ecstatica

A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.

Noun

  1. A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
    • The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work. - 1891, Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion:
    • She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium. - 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256:

Origin

From New Latin ecstatica, from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós).

Forms

ecstaticas