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Synonyms for blessedness

Most common

joy happiness felicity beatitude

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The condition or state of being blessed; holy.

Forms

Plural
blessednesses → beatitudes, happinesses, felicities, joys…

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or Blessedness?

Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • joy Everyone shouted for joy when they heard the news.
  • happiness To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
  • felicity His speech was pleased by its accuracy, felicity, and fluency.
  • beatitude Beatitude is superadded to nature.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
blessednessrising
joyrising
happinessrising
felicitysteady
beatituderising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
joy1
5 letters
bliss1
7 letters
delight2, ecstasy3, rapture2
8 letters
felicity4
9 letters
happiness3, beatitude
13 letters
beatification

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delight2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
béatitude
Italiano
beatitudine