idyll
noun
[ ˈɪdɪl ]
• an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.
• "the rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies"
Similar:
perfect time,
ideal time,
wonderful time,
moment of bliss,
honeymoon,
paradise,
heaven,
heaven on earth,
utopia,
fairyland,
Garden of Eden,
Shangri-La,
Arcadia,
Arcady,
Erewhon,
Opposite:
hell on earth,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the Latin form): from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidullion, diminutive of eidos ‘form, picture’.
