Etymology From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
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Perfect happiness.
The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!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:
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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?1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:
When they insist on knowing my bliss I tell them this When they want to know what the reason is I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why1980, Daryl Hall, Janna Allen, “Kiss on My List”, in Voices, performed by Hall & Oates:
So who is this saying that money is bliss? Your logic remiss You and the devil about to kiss2002, CYNE, “Steady”, in Movements:
Etymology From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
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Usually, Used with out To feel bliss; (by extension) to reach a state of bliss or ecstasy.
I'm still blissing out after our date. I had a great time.