Word Meanings - BLESSEDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak. Syn.

Additional info about word: BLESSEDNESS

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak. Syn. -- Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See Happiness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLESSEDNESS)

• Beatitude
• Blessedness
• bliss
• beatification
• Bliss
• joy
• ecstasy
• rapture

Related words: (words related to BLESSEDNESS)

• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• BLISSLESS
  Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
• ECSTASY
  A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne. (more info) 1. The state of being beside one's self
• BLISSOM
  To be lustful; to be lascivious.
• BEATITUDE
  Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness. (more info) 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations , made in the Sermon on the Mount , with regard to the blessedness of those who
• BLISSFUL
  Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.
• RAPTURE
  1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman. 2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement;
• BLESSEDNESS
  The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak. Syn.
• ENRAPTURE
  To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.