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BLESSEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blessedness mean?
• BLESSEDNESS (noun)
The noun BLESSEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of supreme happiness
Familiarity information: BLESSEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of supreme happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
beatification; beatitude; blessedness
Hypernyms ("blessedness" is a kind of...):
felicity; happiness (state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blessedness"):
enlightenment; nirvana ((Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness)
Derivation:
blessed (characterized by happiness and good fortune)
Context examples
To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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