Synonyms of beatitude

beatitude

noun

bē-ˈa-tə-ˌtüd 

as in joy

a feeling or state of well-being and contentment

not from earthly riches but from the milk of human kindness comes true beatitude

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joy
• happiness
• bliss
• blissfulness
• blessedness
• joyfulness
• enjoyment
• pleasure
• felicity
• gladness
• satisfaction
• ecstasy
• delight
• warm fuzzies
• exultation
• elation
• rapture
• intoxication
• euphoria
• exhilaration
• comfort
• glee
• cheerfulness
• ravishment
• nirvana
• high
• joyousness
• paradise
• glory
• mirth
• triumph
• jubilation
• transport
• heaven
• gratification
• exuberance
• jollity
• contentedness
• seventh heaven
• delectation
• elatedness
• lightheartedness
• jubilance
• rapturousness
• merriness
• content
• gaiety
• gleefulness
• cheer
• jocundity
• gladsomeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misery
• sadness
• calamity
• unhappiness
• wretchedness
• sorrow
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• desolation
• melancholy
• sufferance
• gloom
• dejection
• ill-being
• depression
• blues
• joylessness
• despondency
• gloominess
• hell
• purgatory
• mournfulness
• doldrums
• cheerlessness
• woefulness
• plaintiveness
• desolateness
• Gehenna
• disheartenment
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beatitude

This is a book in which many of the characters are seeking something like God, a kind of existential beatitude. — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

Beatrice was the love that fuelled his poems, which only became more spiritual after her death, when her very name—which suggests beatitude—becomes for him a form of prayer. — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

Ruth knew the community said the same thing—anyone reading the New Testament out loud said the same thing—and were dutiful in concern for all those implicated in both beatitudes and the Civil Rights Act. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025

The Gospel's beatitudes—blessed are the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers—stand in stark opposition to the movement's rhetoric of anger and grievance. — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025

God must possess perfect beatitude, perfect happiness and perfect well-being. — Helen De Cruz, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2020