| Main Entry: | beatitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blessedness |
Synonyms: |
bliss, ecstasy, felicity, happiness, peace, serenity |
| Main Entry: | benediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closing prayer |
Synonyms: |
amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus, benison, blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation, laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks, thanksgiving |
Antonyms: |
anathema, execration |
| Main Entry: | bliss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ecstasy |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, cool*, euphoria, felicity, gladness, gone*, happiness, heaven*, joy, paradise, rapture |
Antonyms: |
grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, upset |
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delectation, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven, trance, transport, twilight zone |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
Antonyms: |
despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
Antonyms: |
depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | holiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religiousness |
Synonyms: |
asceticism, beatitude, blessedness, consecration, devotion, devoutness, divineness, divinity, faith, godliness, grace, humility, inviolability, piety, purity, religiosity, reverence, righteousness, sacredness, saintliness, sanctity, spirituality, unction, venerableness, virtuousness, worship |
Antonyms: |
agnosticism, atheism, sin, unholiness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | rapture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness and delight in something |
Synonyms: |
at-oneness, beatitude, bliss, buoyancy, cheer, cloud nine, communion, contentment, cool*, delectation, ecstasy, elation, elysium, enchantment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glory, good spirits, gratification, heaven, inspiration, joy, jubilation, nirvana, paradise, passion, pleasure, ravishment, rhapsody, satisfaction, seventh heaven, spell, transport, well-being |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | blessedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supreme happiness |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, nirvana |
| Main Entry: | joyfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
| Main Entry: | sacredness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holiness |
Synonyms: |
asceticism, beatitude, blessedness, consecration, devotion, devoutness, divineness, divinity, faith, godliness, grace, humility, inviolability, piety, purity, religiosity, reverence, righteousness, sacrosanctity, saintliness, sanctity, spirituality, unction, venerableness, virtuousness, worship |