NIRVANA
- (in Buddhism) freedom from all passion
- state of bliss
- the final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness
- place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality
- a blessed state in Buddhism [n NIRVANAS] : NIRVANIC [adj]
- goal hoped for but apparently unattainable dream