rapture

• Elysium
• at-oneness
• beatitude
• bewitch
• blessedness
• bliss
• blissfulness
• buoyancy
• captivate
• carry away
• charm
• cheer
• cheerfulness
• cloud nine
• communion
• contentment
• cool
• delectation
• delight
• ecstasy
• elate
• elatedness
• elation
• enchant
• enchantment
• enjoyment
• enrapture
• enthral
• enthrall
• enthusiasm
• entrance
• euphoria
• exaltation
• excite
• exhilarate
• exhilaration
• exuberance
• fascinate
• felicity
• fervor
• frenzy
• gaiety
• gayety
• gladden
• gladness
• glee
• gleefulness
• glory
• good spirits
• gratification
• gratify
• happiness
• heaven
• high
• inspiration
• intoxication
• joy
• joyfulness
• joyousness
• jubilance
• jubilation
• knock dead
• lightheartedness
• madness
• nirvana
• paradise
• passion
• please
• pleasure
• rap
• ravish
• ravishment
• reverie
• rhapsody
• satisfaction
• satisfy
• seventh heaven
• spell
• stir
• swoon
• trance
• transport
• well-being

• blues
• dejection
• depression
• desolation
• despair
• despondency
• disconsolateness
• disheartenment
• dislike
• dispiritedness
• dissatisfaction
• doldrums
• downheartedness
• dreariness
• dumps
• forlornness
• gloom
• gloominess
• hate
• hatred
• heartsickness
• hell
• indifference
• melancholy
• misery
• mopes
• need
• sadness
• sorrow
• unhappiness
• upset
• want
• woe
• wretchedness

• noun
  1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.").
  3. The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  4. Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  5. The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
• verb
  1. To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  2. To experience great happiness or excitement.
  3. To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  4. To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
  5. To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

• The audience was in rapture as the orchestra played the final movement of the symphony.
• She smiled in rapture when she received the news of her promotion.
• The beauty of the sunset filled him with a sense of pure rapture.
• His performance on stage was met with rapture from the crowd, who cheered loudly.
• The children watched in rapture as the magician pulled a rabbit out of the hat.

gale

radiance

zealousness

Zion

ebullition

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