bliss
/blɪs
/noun [mass noun]
1Perfect happiness; great joy: she gave a sigh of bliss...
- By working less and staying at home more, I believed naively that my husband would come home to domestic bliss and a happy marriage would ensue.
- The cat was regarded as an essential element in scenes of domestic bliss and happiness.
- I can live my life in perfect bliss knowing all too well that nothing I ever do will make any difference in this beautiful universe.
Synonyms
joy, pleasure, delight, happiness, gladness, ecstasy, elation, rapture, euphoria, heaven, paradise, seventh heaven, cloud nine, Eden, Utopia, Arcadia;
halcyon days
informal the top of the world
1.1A state of spiritual blessedness, typically that reached after death: the bliss of heaven...
- The man who would conquer his contradictory feelings, would reach bliss in the afterlife.
- The Torah teaches us that there is an eternal life, a wholly spiritual life, whose bliss is far greater than the human mind can imagine.
- But, drawn out of her spiritual bliss and feeling trapped, she quickly turns the tables.
Synonyms
blessedness, blessing, benediction, glory, heaven, paradise, heavenly joy, divine happiness, supreme happiness, divine rapture, beatitude, saintliness, sainthood
verb [no object] (bliss out or be blissed out) informal
Reach a state of perfect happiness, oblivious of everything else: Josh is just blissed out, always smiling [as adjective]: blissed-out hippies...
- Just look at the crosseyed blissed out look he gets every time he does it.
- There's plenty of delightful songwriting and blissed out guitar rock in this bedroom produced album.
- This track though is slightly different, as its not the usual foot-tapping number that they usually write, more of a lovely lazy laid back blissed out gentle tune…
Origin
Old English blīths, bliss, of Germanic origin; related to blithe.
This word from a Germanic root is related to blithe ‘happy’. bless and bliss have influenced each other from an early period, which has meant a gradual semantic distinction between blitheness as an earthly lightness of heart and the heavenly bliss of the ‘blessed’.