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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLISS, n. The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state of extreme happiness [syn: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss; akin to Old English bl?the blithe Date: before 12th century 1. complete happiness 2. paradise, heaven

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a perfect joy or happiness. b enjoyment; gladness. 2 a being in heaven. b a state of blessedness. Etymology: OE bliths, bliss f. Gmc blithsjo f. blithiz BLITHE: sense infl. by BLESS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bliss Bliss (bl[i^]s), n.; pl. Blisses (bl[i^]s"[e^]z). [OE. blis, blisse, AS. blis, bl[=i][eth]s, fr. bl[=i][eth]e blithe. See Blithe.] 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. See Happiness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Bliss is a state of complete happiness. It was a scene of such domestic bliss.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Happiness, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatitude, beatification, joy, transport, rapture, ecstasy, heavenly joy, heaven.

Moby Thesaurus

Canaan, New Jerusalem, Zion, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, blissfulness, blitheness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elysium, empyrean, enchantment, enjoyableness, enjoyment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicitousness, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, happiness, happy hunting ground, harmoniousness, harmony, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, nirvana, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, rapport, rapture, ravishment, seventh heaven, spirituality, sunshine, sweetness, transport, unalloyed happiness, welcomeness