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happiness
[ hap-ee-nis ]
noun
- the quality or state of being happy.
Synonyms: contentedness, satisfaction, enjoyment, delight, bliss, exhilaration, joy, pleasure
Antonyms: misery
- good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.
Synonyms: contentedness, delight, bliss, exhilaration, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment
Other Words From
- over·happi·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of happiness1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
The health, happiness and well-being of men, children and women improve.
He should be free, filling the world with happiness, love and his fighting spirit.
But she cautions against depending on getaways for happiness.
Their bright eyes and wide, happy smiles have spread a feeling of happiness and hope across the art world and beyond.
Very trim and strong, and confident he looked, with the glow of youth in his cheeks, and the spark of happiness in his gray eyes.
Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional intense longing.
How, then, are we to explain this extraordinary discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness?
The vision of the universal happiness seen by the economists has proved a mirage.
That news has caused a quite universal happiness to this wretched community.
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