BEATIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beatification mean? 

• BEATIFICATION (noun)
  The noun BEATIFICATION has 3 senses:

1. a state of supreme happiness

2. the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy

3. (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization

  Familiarity information: BEATIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEATIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of supreme happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

beatification; beatitude; blessedness

Hypernyms ("beatification" is a kind of...):

felicity; happiness (state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beatification"):

enlightenment; nirvana ((Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness)

Derivation:

beatify (make blessedly happy)

beatify (fill with sublime emotion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("beatification" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Derivation:

beatify (make blessedly happy)

beatify (fill with sublime emotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("beatification" is a kind of...):

sanctification (a religious ceremony in which something is made holy)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Derivation:

beatify (declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood)