bliss
pronunciation
How to pronounce bliss in British English:
UK [blɪs]
How to pronounce bliss in American English:
US [blɪs]
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- Noun:
- a state of extreme happiness
Word Origin
- bliss
- bliss: [OE] Despite its formal and semantic similarity, bliss has no connection with bless. It comes ultimately from Germanic *blīthiz ‘gentle, kind’, which is the source of English blithe ‘happy’ [OE]. The addition of the noun suffix *-tjō produced the derivative *blīthsjō, which entered Old English as blīths ‘happiness’, later reduced to bliss.=> blithe
- bliss (n.)
- Old English blis, also bliðs "bliss, merriment, happiness, grace, favor," from Proto-Germanic *blithsjo (cognates: Old Saxon blidsea, blizza), from *blithiz "gentle, kind" + *-tjo noun suffix. Originally mostly of earthly happiness; influenced by association with bless and blithe.
- bliss (v.)
- often with out, by 1973, U.S. colloquial, from bliss (n.).
Example
- 1. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive .
- 2. Internal stimulation at the same time may help her over the edge to bliss !
- 3. Third , it makes them happy stakhanovites , sitting at their screens for hours in a state of focused bliss .
- 4. When the novelty of being married finally rubs off and reality kicks in , they discover that marriage is not all bliss .
- 5. Our exhaustion had turned into bliss .