bliss |blis|
noun
perfect happiness; great joy : she gave a sigh of bliss. See note at rapture .
• something providing such happiness : the steam room was bliss.
• a state of spiritual blessedness, typically that reached after death.
PHRASAL VERBS
bliss out [often as adj. ] ( blissed out) informal reach a state of perfect happiness, typically so as to be oblivious of everything else : blissed-out hippies.
ORIGIN Old English blīths, bliss, of Germanic origin; related to blithe .
rap-ture |ˈrap ch ər|
noun
1 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy : Leonora listened with rapture.
• ( raptures) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something : the tabloids went into raptures about her.
2 ( the Rapture) (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
she gazed at him in rapture: ecstasy, bliss, exaltation, euphoria, elation, joy, enchantment, delight, happiness, pleasure.
PHRASES
go into raptures the crowd went into raptures over Carreras's rendition of "Some Enchanted Evening": enthuse, rhapsodize, rave, gush, wax lyrical; informal go wild/crazy/mad.
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If ignorance is bliss and bliss is rapture, that may explain why so many Americans seem to be enraptured by their own ignorance.
The following is a self-scoring intelligence test. You'll know if you passed at the end.
The following is a self-scoring intelligence test. You'll know if you passed at the end.
1. "Them" - A God-Awful Story That Ends with a Breath of Fresh Air
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