beatitude

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: be=at=i=tude

CIDE DICTIONARY

beatitude, n. [L. beatitudo: cf. F. béatitude. See Beatify.].

•  Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.  [1913 Webster]
•  Beatification.  Milman.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beatitude, n.
1 blessedness.
2 (in pl.) the declarations of blessedness in Matt. 5:3-11.
3 a title given to patriarchs in the Orthodox Church.

Etymology

F b{eacute}atitude or L beatitudo f. beatus blessed

THESAURUS

beatitude

beatification, bewitchment, blessedness, blessing, bliss, blissfulness, canonization, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, consecration, dedication, delectation, delight, devotion, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, enshrinement, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, glorification, grace, hallowing, happiness, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, justification, justification by works, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, purification, rapture, ravishment, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven, state of grace, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness

ROGET THESAURUS

beatitude

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.