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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)
- Perfect happiness.
- The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
- a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 188:
- Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!
- 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:
- What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from bliss (noun)
Translations[edit]
perfect happiness
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier blīds, blīþs, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bliss f
Inflection[edit]
Declension of bliss (strong ō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
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