1. [n]  a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
2. [n]  a state of elated bliss

Rapture
Benjamin and Kay are engaged in having sex, and in alternating narratives, each gives a version of the series of events that have brought them together--stories that are, needless to say, radically divergent. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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1. \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum,
   to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.]
   1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with
      violence. [Obs.]
            That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With
            headlong rapture.                     --Chapman.
   2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from
      one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing
      passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
            Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the
            hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion,
            and advances praise into rapture.     --Addison.
            You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
                                                  --Pope.
   3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak.
   Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
   

2. \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[-u]rd;
   135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.]
   To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]
   --Thomson.