How do you pluralize bliss?

Answer 1

You don't. It cannot be used as a plural.

Several have said that "bliss" is BOTH the singular and plural form, comparing it with nouns like deer.

Not quite.

"Deer" (sheep, etc) uses the same FORM for singular and plural -- "A/one deer IS" or "TWO deer ARE". These are things tat can be counted, and truly do have a singular and plural. "Bliss" on the other hand is an abstraction, and can ONLY take the singular form -- "bliss is".

The key is this -- many nouns, like deer are used for things that we count, and so are called "count nouns"

But "bliss" is what is called a "non-count" noun. This type of noun used to speak of things that are ONLY thought of as a "whole" (abstractions like "bliss", "education", "happiness") or collectively (e.g., "furniture" or "cash"). These nouns do not take plurals.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount.html
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By the way, on the use as a family name, which is something entirely different, BOTH answers are mistaken.

If the family name is "Bliss", one member of the family is a "Bliss" and the whole family is "the Blisses". The apostrophe is ONLY used to form the POSSESSIVE, not the plural. Use apostrophe + s after the singular form (even if it ends with an s!!), or just the apostrophe with a plural form that has already added an s. In other words:

"This is Tom Bliss's book. We should run by the Blisses' house and give it back to him."

Answer 2

jan is incorrect. You would never put Bliss's even if it was a family name.

If its a family name, it would be The Bliss' house.
You never put an extra S after a possessive noun if it already ends in S...you just put the ' .

Anyway, the word bliss is singular and plural

Answer 3

Bliss *is* a noun, but it describes a state of being. It does not appear to have a pluralization.

Answer 4

Bliss is the plural and singular form.

Answer 5

You can't. You would think it would be "blisses", but both www.dictionary.com and www.m-w.com say there is NO plural for bliss.
If a family's last name was Bliss, then you could put it as Bliss's (as in "The Bliss's live next door.")--I am assuming this, however. :)

Answer 6

bliss is a state that you are in- there's no way or need to pluralize it if you're using it correctly. he is in bliss, they are in bliss. it's the same

Answer 7

It's already in its plural and singular form. There are words like that, like deer.

I better not have gotten that thumbs down because some idiot thinks the word deers exists.

I never thought about pluralizing the word, but bruhaha's answer at the bottom seems reasonable enough.

Answer 8

"states of bliss"

Answer 9

You already did.

Answer 10

you don't.