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bliss - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)

• 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!*¹
  • ✤ 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?²
  • ✤ 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 why³
  • ✤ So who is this saying that money is bliss?
    Your logic remiss
    You and the devil about to kiss⁴

Verb

bliss (third-person singular simple present blisses, present participle blissing, simple past and past participle blissed)

• (intransitive, 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.

Etymology

From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic ﹡blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /blɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 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: ↩

2. 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116: ↩

3. 1980, Daryl Hall, Janna Allen, “Kiss on My List”, in Voices ‎${}^{[1]}$, performed by Hall & Oates: ↩

4. 2002, CYNE, “Steady”, in Movements ‎${}^{[2]}$: ↩

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