blessedness

Blessedness, n.

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.

Syn. -- Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See Happiness.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for blessedness; he lists it under happiness.

Where he writes about it:

Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. — from happiness

Synonyms

happiness bliss cheer comfort contentment delight ecstasy enjoyment felicity gaiety gladness gratification joy merriment mirth pleasure rapture rejoicing satisfaction triumph

Antonyms

grief

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