rapture
noun
[ ˈraptʃə ]
• a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
• "Leonora listened with rapture"
Similar:
ecstasy,
bliss,
euphoria,
elation,
exaltation,
joy,
joyfulness,
joyousness,
cloud nine,
seventh heaven,
transport,
rhapsody,
enchantment,
delight,
exhilaration,
happiness,
pleasure,
ravishment,
the top of the world,
delectation,
• (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ.
• "thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture"
rapture
verb
• (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ.
• "people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt.
