rapture

n.

1. Delight

   happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness, gratification, enchantment, bewitchment, elation, euphoria, ecstasy, transport, rhapsody, jubilation, buoyancy, altitudes*, seventh heaven*, cloud nine*; see also happiness 2.

   Antonyms pain*, grief*, affliction. *

2. An ecstatic state

   ecstasy, bliss, transport, beatitude, exaltation, enchantment, passion, glory, elysium, paradise, inspiration, enthusiasm, divine communion, mystical trance, at-oneness; see also sense 1.

rapture now generally suggests the mental exaltation experienced when one's entire attention is captured by something that evokes great joy or pleasure; ecstasy implies extreme emotional exaltation, now usually intense delight, that overpowers the senses and lifts one into a trancelike state; bliss implies a state of great happiness and contentment, often suggesting heavenly joy; transport applies to any powerful emotion by which one is carried away