7th Heaven

Absolute peak joy

7th Heaven is a state of perfect happiness or bliss.

The expression comes from cosmological traditions that imagined seven celestial spheres, with the outermost being closest to God.

To be in seventh heaven is to experience the highest possible joy: She was in seventh heaven after getting the promotion.

Also spelled seventh heaven.

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emotional state/bliss

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Underworld of suffering

misery · rock bottom · agony · the pits · torment

cosmological/spiritual realm

7th Heavenhell

Underworld of suffering

Hades · Gehenna · perdition · the underworld · Tartarus

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