Another word for rapture
A state of elated bliss:
ecstasy, heaven, paradise, seventh heaven, transport. (Informal) cloud nine. See happy
Another word for rapture
rapture
n.
Delight
happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness, gratification, enchantment, bewitchment, elation, euphoria, ecstasy, transport, rhapsody, jubilation, buoyancy, altitudes*, seventh heaven*, cloud nine*; see also happiness 2.
An ecstatic state
ecstasy, bliss, transport, beatitude, exaltation, enchantment, passion, glory, elysium, paradise, inspiration, enthusiasm, divine communion, mystical trance, at-oneness; see also sense 1.
rapture now generally suggests the mental exaltation experienced when one's entire attention is captured by something that evokes great joy or pleasure; ecstasy implies extreme emotional exaltation, now usually intense delight, that overpowers the senses and lifts one into a trancelike state; bliss implies a state of great happiness and contentment, often suggesting heavenly joy; transport applies to any powerful emotion by which one is carried away
