rapturousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapturousness
Noun
  • Just Like Heaven is one fun reminder that seventh heaven is finding a kindred spirit.
    Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This birthday girl would soon grow up to be in seventh heaven.
    Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • At times brutal and always volatile, the album functions as a sort of electro-shock therapy applied from the shoulders down, layering hard beats, ambient whorls, and nervous acid ticks to trigger a state of full-body rapture.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Near dawn, Molly finally achieves her goal—in a moving, unusually muted sequence that stands in contrast to pornographic depictions of climactic rapture—then sends her neighbor on his way.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Carney’s closure has led to longer ambulance transport times for patients in the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods, and strained emergency department services in the region, the report contends.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Singapore’s monetary authority said increases in the costs of food and private transport in March mainly contributed to the headline inflation.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The mouth is open just enough, perhaps because a shout of ecstasy had been ready to escape, if only the fan’s knocking at the door of the ecstatic had been answered.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Kelly later composed a chronicle of his meandering space treks - highlighting the agonies and the ecstasies of life in orbit - in the sensational book Endurance.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One reason is that solving one of the bigger puzzles in Blue Prince creates a sense of euphoria that is hard to replicate in other games.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Canada cut through the euphoria just long enough to put the evening into words.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Justin Vernon — the band’s frontman and creative engine — is singing more directly than ever before, and the production captures hope, thrills and a kind of unselfconscious exultation.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Justin Vernon — the band’s frontman and creative engine — is singing more directly than ever before, and the production captures hope, thrills and a kind of unselfconscious exultation.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Rapturousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapturousness. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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