rapture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A feeling of great joy, delight, or excitement.

   They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.

2. 2
   noun

   A state of being completely swept away by overwhelming emotion.

   The audience listened in rapture as the orchestra played.

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

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