BLISS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bliss mean? 

• BLISS (noun)
  The noun BLISS has 1 sense:

1. a state of extreme happiness

  Familiarity information: BLISS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLISS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bliss; blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air

Hypernyms ("bliss" is a kind of...):

elation (an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bliss"):

ecstasy; rapture (a state of elated bliss)

 Context examples 

It was not unalloyed bliss, taking her to the lecture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Traddles was very full of it; and said, that, picturing himself with such a home, and Sophy waiting and preparing for him, he could think of nothing wanting to complete his bliss.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Religion called—Angels beckoned—God commanded—life rolled together like a scroll—death's gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Professor looked as if he had conquered a kingdom, and the world had nothing more to offer him in the way of bliss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“May the four Evangelists watch over you! May the twelve Apostles bear you up! May the blessed army of martyrs direct your feet and lead you to eternal bliss!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The circumstances of the morning had led Catherine's feelings through the varieties of suspense, security, and disappointment; but they were now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and with spirits elated to rapture, with Henry at her heart, and Northanger Abbey on her lips, she hurried home to write her letter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was supported into the drawing-room between her daughter and her friend;—and there, shedding tears of joy, though still unable to speak, embraced Elinor again and again, turning from her at intervals to press Colonel Brandon's hand, with a look which spoke at once her gratitude, and her conviction of his sharing with herself in the bliss of the moment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And he, in turn, knew again the swimming sensation of bliss when he felt the contact of her hand in greeting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm round the blue waist of my dear divinity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)