- First axis: anterior means toward the nose or front; posterior means toward the tail or back. Second axis: dorsal is toward the surface of the back or top of the head (as in dorsal fin); ventral indicates the surface of the chest or bottom of the head. - Third axis: medial is toward the midline of the body; lateral indicates outside or away from the midline. 3.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: BLISS. BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known systems programming language right up until C made its debut a few years later.
pleasantness - the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. 2. pleasantness - the quality of giving pleasure; he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner; the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day. sweetness. quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare.