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Synonyms for bliss

  • noun

Most common

happiness felicity joy ecstasy

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Noun

happiness, felicity, joy, ecstasy, paradise, heaven, blessedness, delight, pleasure, beatitude, enjoyment, rapture, seventh heaven, enchantment, cloud nine, transport, blissfulness, beatification, delectation, gladness, ravishment

Antonyms

agony, pain, anguish

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Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Perfect happiness.

    The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.

Forms

Plural
blisses → happinesses, felicities, joys, ecstasies…

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Bliss or Happiness?

Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven.

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.
  • ecstasy Sami fell into a state of ecstasy during the dhikr.
  • felicity His speech was pleased by its accuracy, felicity, and fluency.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
blissrising
joyrising
happinessrising
ecstasyrising
felicitysteady

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

By length

3 letters
joy1
6 letters
heaven2
7 letters
delight2, ecstasy3, rapture2
8 letters
pleasure2, paradise3, felicity4, gladness
9 letters
transport2, happiness3, enjoyment3, beatitude
10 letters
ravishment
11 letters
enchantment3, blessedness3, delectation
12 letters
blissfulness
13 letters
beatification

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heaven2 = 2 syllables).