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bliss ninny

bliss ninny noun: a person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand.

Noun

bliss ninny (plural bliss ninnies)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand.
  2. (slang, spirituality) A student who may seem to be intoxicated with spiritual teachings, but is ungrounded or untrained.
    • If you don't extend the circuitry, chances are you are going to be blown out, or even become a "bliss ninny." It's very easy to fall into bliss; we are only a fraction of a psychic centimeter away from it all the time.1987, New Realities, volumes 8-9, page 44

Forms of bliss ninny

pluralbliss ninnies

Questions about bliss ninny

What does bliss ninny mean?
Bliss ninny means a person who is unrealistically optimistic, or a Pollyanna, and who might seem to prefer to retreat from difficult situations by professing seemingly irrelevant platitudes, rather than engaging meaningfully with the difficulty at hand.
What part of speech is bliss ninny?
Bliss ninny is a noun.
What is the plural of bliss ninny?
The plural of bliss ninny is bliss ninnies.

Words near bliss ninny in the dictionary

  1. blisk
  2. blisks
  3. Blisland
  4. bliss
  5. bliss ninnies
  6. bliss ninny
  7. bliss out
  8. bliss point
  9. bliss points
  10. Blissard's symbolic method
  11. blissdom

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