rapture

Meaning

Noun

1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Verb

1. To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
2. To experience great happiness or excitement.
3. To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
4. To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
5. To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Synonyms

ecstasy

delight

joy

😂

pleasure

bliss

exaltation

enthusiasm

elation

transport

exhilaration

ravishment

raptus

exultation

rejoicing

happiness

ecstacy

verve

admiration

entrancement

satisfaction

glory

gratification

impair

joyfulness

jubilation

outburst

panache

raptness

raving

rhapsody

rift

rive

spirit

thrill

trance

vigour

great joy

great delight

felicitations

Ecstasy

extreme joy

flying-off

out-break

abruption

failure breaking

attraction

awe

break

breakage

breakdown

charm

collapsing

congratulations

㊗️

cracking

delirium

enchantment

energy

euphoria

failure

fascination

fracture

fragmentation

gladness

glee

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).