blessedness

Noun

Meaning

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

beatitude delight ecstasy beatification elysium grace bliss felicity paradise glee divinity rapture godliness pleasure heaven
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Antonyms

depression aggravation stress anxiety distress discontent
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Hypernyms

felicity happiness

Hyponyms

nirvana enlightenment

Phrases with the word

single blessedness

Anagrams

bedlessness

Examples

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle

Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart. John of Kronstadt

With the eye in a natural state sight follows necessarily ... In the same way the life of blessedness is as a familiar second nature to those who have kept clear the senses of the soul. Gregory of Nyssa

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. William Cullen Bryant

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. Baruch Spinoza

Close letter words and terms

Blessed Virgin Mary blessedfull blessedly blessee blesser blessing