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as in joy
a feeling or state of well-being and contentment
the proud parents can scarcely describe the blessedness of having four healthy children
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as in holiness
the quality or state of being spiritually pure or virtuous
Mother Teresa's renowned blessedness made her an obvious candidate for sainthood
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blessedness
Noun
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But one that comes from excitement and joy and chasing each other around.—
Danielle Pergament,
SELF,
10 Apr. 2025 -
Nothing quite compares to the joy of sitting by the beach, breathing in the warm ocean breeze, and basking in the beauty of your surroundings.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
9 Apr. 2025
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So if a film can convey that or suggest that— CS: There’s nothing holier… There’s a holiness to Leigh’s films because of that.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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McKinney grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas where she was taught that her tendency to gossip would keep her from holiness.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To no longer be complicit in surrendering her life to the sport at the expense of her happiness.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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So that was a very conscious call, along with the choice of basing it in a particular weather, which is monsoon, because the characters don’t really have any happiness or sunshine in their life.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
27 Mar. 2025
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Mental well-being Newberg at FAU has studied spirituality and its link to brain health.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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Piper, played by Sarah Catherine Hook, tricked her parents and brothers in traveling to Thailand for her college thesis, while actually planning to move there for a year after graduation, to expand upon her spirituality and study Buddhism from local monks.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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After three seasons of Netflix's dating documentary series centered on singles across the autism spectrum, fan favorites Abby Romeo and David Isaacman have some company in romantic bliss.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Spoiler alert … anxiety will soon challenge our peaceful bliss, because where there are blooms and fresh new foliage, there will be pests.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Blessedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blessedness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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