What word describes the painful emotion/physical sensations felt when experiencing something SO beautiful? [duplicate]
I was hoping for some help on this one. I'm looking for a word that carries all the connotations of "excruciating" (intense, prolonged, unbearable, torturous, etc) but relating to pleasure rather than pain.
I could potentially use "excruciating pleasure", applying it's lesser used meaning to imply "extreme/intense" - it might even be somewhat poetic, but there's an implication of masochism that doesn't really fit my narrative.
Any suggestions? I'm happy to to accept a clever protologism if no such word exists!
As an example:
The slow, seemingly endless mingling of their bodies was _______.
Solution 1:
She experienced an exquisite pleasure.
exquisite adj.
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- Intense; keen: exquisite delight; suffered exquisite pain.
[AHD]
The 'unbearable' flavour perhaps comes from the collocation 'exquisite pain', but the word is also used to describe pleasure.
Solution 2:
Euphoric
adjective
characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
He felt euphoric pleasure.
Solution 3:
Ecstatic
- of, relating to, or characterized by ecstasy or a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion: an ecstatic frenzy; ecstatic cheering for the winning team.
- subject to or in a state of ecstasy; full of joy; rapturous: They are absolutely ecstatic about their new baby.
Solution 4:
Orgasmic (Google Dictionary)
relating to orgasm (of a person); able to achieve orgasm.
Informal: very enjoyable or exciting: The album is an orgasmic whirl of techno soundscapes
Solution 5:
A couple suggestions:
Bliss
or
Rapture