noun / verb
transport
Overwhelming emotional excitement, experienced or caused.
The soaring music transports her, filling her with pure joy.
Etymology
The parts mean carrying across. Strong emotion figuratively carries people beyond their ordinary state of self-control or awareness.
More examples
- In a transport of rage, he slams the door.
- The final chorus leaves the audience in transports of delight.
- She is transported with joy when she hears the news.
Forms
transport · transports · transported · transporting
Similar words
- ecstasy
- Ecstasy names intense bliss, not overwhelming anger or distress.
- enrapture
- Enrapture means to fill someone specifically with delight or wonder.