as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the remainder of the evening
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Recent Examples of rhapsody
Crime Wave begins as nostalgic rhapsody for film noir, for dangers that are a kind of quickening: of the pulse, of the primal feeling of aliveness that only a threat can invoke.
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Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
How many of you have a relationship with a human?, the latter of which drew most hands — snowballed into a hand-shaking rhapsody that flirted with the Pentecostal.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Reid’s score alternates between rhapsody and pandemonium, with the latter winning out in a riotous coda.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
The rest of this rhapsody in blue at the Alamodome?
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
How many of you have a relationship with a human?, the latter of which drew most hands — snowballed into a hand-shaking rhapsody that flirted with the Pentecostal.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Reid’s score alternates between rhapsody and pandemonium, with the latter winning out in a riotous coda.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
The rest of this rhapsody in blue at the Alamodome?
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhapsody
Noun
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Courtside fans, unable to contain themselves, stormed the hardwood to take selfies with the stars in pure playoff ecstasy.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
4 June 2026
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The final whistle brought ecstasy.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Yes, the summer festival season is here (thank heavens).—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Through this deceptively simple framework, Hiraide delivers a poetic and poignant meditation on the passage of time, the meaning of work and love, and the surprise of finding joy in life’s ephemeral details.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Call it artistic expression, or maybe just a Knicks fan too busy jumping for joy to cut the outtakes.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
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“Rhapsody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhapsody. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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