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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The final whistle brought ecstasy.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Her husband, Souksavath Noi Keomisy, pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony federal charges of conspiracy to possess the drug ecstasy with the intent to distribute.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 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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The service The staff here are ever so kind, and bound by the same joy and passion for food and nature as the people that visit.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Pain and joy, an equal balancing, a vying bright anguish of the two.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 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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