unbliss

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ bliss.

Noun[edit]

unbliss (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of blisslessness; unjoy.
    • 2010, Jim Burns, 10 Building Blocks for a Solid Family:
      After a year of marital unbliss, we moved from California to Princeton, New Jersey, where we attended graduate school. The Princeton years were actually better than our first year of marriage, but we still needed improvement.
    • 2014, William Ian Miller, Why Is Your Axe Bloody?:
      Gunnar is of this world in the most common way; we see him engaged with his wife in connubial unbliss.