Happiness
['hæpɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being.
(noun.) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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Definition
(n.) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
(n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
(n.) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Felicity, bliss, beatitude, blessedness, enjoyment, welfare, well-being, prosperity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enjoyment, wellbeing,[See BLISS]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Examples
- Is there, indeed, such happiness on earth? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Happiness or misery was now the question. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A twilight calm of happiness then succeeding to their radiant noon, they remained at peace, until a strange voice in the room startled them both. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For the sake of her happiness, I hope she will. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No happiness of son or niece could make her wish the marriage. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He, for his part, rushed off to the school with the utmost happiness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In less than an hour poor Fanny opened her eyes and fixed them on me with a bright smile, expressive of the purest happiness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Is there, indeed, such happiness on earth? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Happiness or misery was now the question. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A twilight calm of happiness then succeeding to their radiant noon, they remained at peace, until a strange voice in the room startled them both. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For the sake of her happiness, I hope she will. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No happiness of son or niece could make her wish the marriage. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He, for his part, rushed off to the school with the utmost happiness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In less than an hour poor Fanny opened her eyes and fixed them on me with a bright smile, expressive of the purest happiness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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