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Bliss

Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

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Ecstasy 76% connected

The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as whe…

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Rapture 76% connected

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

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Elation 76% connected

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Delusion noun · 86% connection

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental disease noun · 86% connection

any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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-art unknown · 78% connection

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of Germ…

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Aleconner noun · 78% connection

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to in…

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Art unknown · 78% connection

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are…

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Beatitude noun · 78% connection

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

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Bickern noun · 78% connection

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

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Bird noun · 78% connection

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

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Blessed adjective · 78% connection

Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.

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Blessedness noun · 78% connection

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

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Blissful adjective · 78% connection

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

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Cheerless adjective · 78% connection

Without joy, gladness, or comfort.

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Culmination noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon

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Deferent noun · 78% connection

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle w…

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