rapture
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈræp.tʃər/
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éxtasis
- She felt a moment of pure rapture when she finally achieved her lifelong dream.
- joy and rapture
- ecstasy and rapture
- experience rapture
He's in such a rapture, in such an enthusiasm, with such passion.
- He's in such a rapture, in such an enthusiasm, with such passion.
- Joy and dread mingled there, infusing the air with a powerful sense of rapture and uncertainty.
- I mean, you can, you can, you can experience really drug like states of of rapture and bliss by merely becoming concentrated.
- Like you have to be able to find the ecstatic and find the rapture and find those feelings all over the place.
- She could always feel that original rapture, that sense of dawning expertise that had been the first real sign that she was growing up, coming into herself.
- It is no more than The Dark Knight and self delusive rapture of consciousness.
Examples
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When he was eleven years old, he experienced rapture while walking along Cyprus Avenue.
Academic text (2001) -
A song like that can transport you to honest-to-goodness, oh, oh, rapture.
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Even then, the answer, much less the moment of rapture, may not be waiting at the summit.
Academic text (2011) -
I see, said Professor Q in quiet rapture, I see, I see.
Fiction book (1990) -
Like you have to be able to find the ecstatic and find the rapture and find those feelings all over the place.
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Is it a rapture of delight which would, as we say, cause one almost swoon?
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His arms are outstretched, as if in rapture not at the heavens above but at the river below.
Academic text (2008) -
Each of these benign surprises affecting me was a rapture someone born rich is not likely ever to enjoy.
Fiction book (1999) -
Joy and dread mingled there, infusing the air with a powerful sense of rapture and uncertainty.
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Mayakovsky was in raptures at the achievements of technology and the greatness of human genius.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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6.1
A feeling of very great joy and excitement
45
6.8
A very strong feeling of happiness and excitement
17
5.8
A strong, happy feeling of excitement
3
7.9
A strong feeling of great joy often shown by loud shouts
2
7.6
A feeling of great happiness and strong emotion
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8.2
A very strong feeling of joy or excitement
Being carried away by a very strong feeling of joy or wonder
A strong feeling of joy or wonder that takes over someone
A very strong feeling of deep happiness
Antonyms
How Joyful
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Morphology
Etymology
Rapture comes from the Latin words raptus and rapere, which meant 'to seize' or 'snatch away'. Think of being so full of joy that the feeling 'seizes' you, and that is why rapture means intense delight.