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HAPPINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("happiness" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Attribute:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "happiness"):
bonheur ((French) happiness and good humor)
gladfulness; gladness; gladsomeness (experiencing joy and pleasure)
gaiety; merriment (a gay feeling)
rejoicing (a feeling of great happiness)
belonging (happiness felt in a secure relationship)
blitheness; cheerfulness (a feeling of spontaneous good spirits)
contentment (happiness with one's situation in life)
Antonym:
sadness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)
Derivation:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("happiness" is a kind of...):
emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))
Attribute:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "happiness"):
beatification; beatitude; blessedness (a state of supreme happiness)
radiance (an attractive combination of good health and happiness)
Antonym:
unhappiness (state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief)
Derivation:
happy (marked by good fortune)
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Context examples:
A sensation of discomfort or distress that renders an individual unable to find any happiness.
(Miserable Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
I don't mean the normal happiness that comes from seeing friends, receiving presents, or spending time with family members.
(NPI - Seem Too Cheerful or Too Happy for No Reason, NCI Thesaurus)
In all of the experiments, the participants were shown the smiling faces of white or black people, and were asked to rate the level of happiness they perceived in the images.
(White people’s perceptions of the emotions on black people’s faces are less accurate than their perceptions among other white people, University of Granada)
Study participants were asked to rate their level of happiness and record their daily consumption of fruit and vegetables. (UQ News)
(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
On February 16, Mars will join Saturn (long-term planning), Pluto (transformation), and Jupiter (good fortune, happiness, and joy).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Then all anxiety was at an end, and they lived together in perfect happiness.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my friend whose happiness is yours; but I must only wait on hopeless and work.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
While he went wild with happiness when Thornton touched him or spoke to him, he did not seek these tokens.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Denied happiness himself, why should he deny happiness to her?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
