happiness
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being happy.
- Synonyms:
- satisfaction, enjoyment, delight, contentedness, bliss, exhilaration, joy, pleasure
- Antonyms:
- misery
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good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.
- Synonyms:
- delight, contentedness, bliss, exhilaration, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment
Related Words
Happiness, bliss, contentment, felicity imply an active or passive state of pleasure or pleasurable satisfaction. Happiness results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good: the happiness of visiting one's family. Bliss is unalloyed happiness or supreme delight: the bliss of perfect companionship. Contentment is a peaceful kind of happiness in which one rests without desires, even though every wish may not have been gratified: contentment in one's surroundings. Felicity is a formal word for happiness of an especially fortunate or intense kind: to wish a young couple felicity in life.
Other Word Forms
- overhappiness noun
Etymology
Origin of happiness
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Example Sentences
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"My home is Ukraine because it's my motherland, I was born there. But my second home now is Scotland, where we feel happiness, where we feel comfortable," he says.
From BBC
“El Dio allows us these moments of happiness to lift our spirits, even as we suffer through the sorrow of departure.”
From Literature
This time when the app opened, a small Indian woman in a bright orange sari greeted him and reminded him that he made his own happiness with his choices.
From Literature
Not much later, Maximilien Robespierre claimed to be ready “to trace with my blood the route which must lead my country to happiness and to Liberty.”
"My happiness comes before any form of football anymore, so whatever decision I make on where I'll play football will be based on where I think I'll be happiest for myself, my family."
From BBC
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