rapture
Intense exalted feeling
Rapture is a state of intense joy or ecstasy—being so transported by emotion that you're lifted out of ordinary experience: She listened in rapture.
In Christian theology, the Rapture is the anticipated event when believers will be caught up to meet Christ in the air before or during the end times.
The adjective rapturous describes such overwhelming delight: rapturous applause.
Intense emotional high
- elationIntense triumphant joy
- exhilarationIntense joyful excitement
- blissPerfect, serene felicity
- transportMoving things between places
exultation · joy · delight · rhapsody · intoxication · fervor · thrill · jubilation
Movement to higher position
- second comingAwaited return of greatness
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- tribulationState of great distress
- resurrectionRevival from death
glorification · transfiguration · salvation · redemption · apocalypse · millennium · deliverance · chosen
Filled with wonder
- spellboundHeld as if enchanted
- enrapturedFilled with overwhelming delight
- mesmerizedHeld in rapt attention
- enthralledDeeply fascinated, held rapt
enchanted · bewitched · transported · absorbed · transfixed · overcome · seized · swept away
Profound spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- satoriSudden spiritual awakening
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
illumination · epiphany · mystical union · divine union · samadhi · spiritual ecstasy · cosmic consciousness
euphoria
Intense emotional high
- elationIntense triumphant joy
- exhilarationIntense joyful excitement
- blissPerfect, serene felicity
transport · exultation · joy · delight · rhapsody · intoxication · fervor · thrill · jubilation · passion
ascension
Movement to higher position
- second comingAwaited return of greatness
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- tribulationState of great distress
resurrection · glorification · transfiguration · salvation · redemption · apocalypse · millennium · deliverance · chosen · faithful
entranced
Filled with wonder
- spellboundHeld as if enchanted
- enrapturedFilled with overwhelming delight
- mesmerizedHeld in rapt attention
enthralled · enchanted · bewitched · transported · absorbed · transfixed · overcome · seized · swept away · beside oneself
enlightenment
Profound spiritual awakening
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- satoriSudden spiritual awakening
- mokshaRelease from rebirth cycle
awakening · illumination · epiphany · mystical union · divine union · samadhi · spiritual ecstasy · cosmic consciousness
paradise
Ideal, blissful place
eternal bliss · glory · hereafter · kingdom · Zion · Valhalla · Eden · firmament · divine realm · afterlife
- Biblical ProphecyMessiah, prophets, end times, eschatology, Armageddon
- Christianesealtar call, backslider, blessed, born again, churched
- Evangelicalismevangelicalism, born again, born-again, evangelists, evangelist
- mystical statesecstasy, religious ecstasy, mystical union, divine union, samadhi
- religious fervorfervor, zeal, zealotry, fanaticism, devotion
- Supernatural FaithHoly Spirit, divine revelation, prophets, visions, spiritual gifts
rapturedespair
Total absence of hope
agony · misery · anguish · torment · wretchedness
rapturedamnation
Eternal punishment decree
perdition · dark night of the soul · hellfire · forsaken · abandonment
rapturedespair
Total absence of hope
hopelessness · desolation · nihilism · emptiness · numbness