rapturousnessn.
/ˈraptʃ(ə)rəsnəs/, U.S. /ˈræp(t)ʃərəsnəs/ The state or quality of being rapturous.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun]
ravishment1477
exaltationa1513
ecstasy1526
enragement1596
rapture1598
trance1598
transportation1617
raptery1640
enravishment1656
transport1658
rapturousnessa1687
sublimation1816
raptus1845
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [noun]
zeala1382
suspending1483
rapture1598
zealotism1645
ecstasya1652
fanaticism1652
suspension1669
fanatism1680
rapturousnessa1687
religionism1706
rapturation1792
samadhi1795
Schwärmerei1845
seraphism1846
ecstasis1874
a1687 H. More Lett. on Several Subj. (1694) 4 It will ballast the first well, and prevent all the danger of over-much Rapturousness.
1867 C. T. Brooks tr. L. Schefer Layman's Breviary 127 Whereby then shall we measure life? By years? By rapturousness of joy?
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. viii. 133 All that he has dreamed of rapturousness and blessedness.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience ii. 48 There are plenty of men..in whose religious life this rapturousness is lacking.
1924 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 13 Dec. 5/7 That southern songs were favorites with the audience at Brun Chapel was borne out..by the rapturousness of the applause.
1987 Nature 30 Apr. 902/3 There is a rapturousness in the descriptions..which confers on them a special quality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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