From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs ("joy, gladness"), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi.

• IPA: /blɪs/

bliss

1. Perfect happiness.

   The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.

   • a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC ↗, page 188 ↗:

     Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!

   • 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC ↗, page 116 ↗:

     What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?

• French: béatitude, félicité
• German: Glückseligkeit, Glück
• Italian: beatitudine
• Portuguese: júbilo, gáudio, êxtase
• Russian: блаже́нство
• Spanish: euforia, dicha, beatitud

• IPA: /blɪs/

1. Surname originating as a nickname.
2. (rare) A unisex given name.
3. (computing) a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
4. A place in USA:
   1. A ghost town in California.
   2. A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
   3. An ucomm in Adair County, Kentucky.
   4. A twp in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
   5. An ucomm in Washington County, Missouri.
   6. CDP in Eagle, Wyoming County.
   7. Former name of Old Bliss Oklahoma.