Meaning of happiness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The emotion of being happy; joy; elation.
   uncountable
2. something that brings happiness
3. Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
   archaic, uncountable
4. a state of tranquility free from anxiety and emotional disturbance. — ataractic, ataraxic, adj.
5. Good luck; good fortune.
   archaic, uncountable
6. an inability to be happy. — athedonic, adj.
7. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace, used especially of language.
   countable, obsolete
8. an extreme love for gaiety.
9. an abnormal fear of gaiety.
10. Ethics. a moral system based upon the performance of right actions to achieve happiness. — eudemonist, eudaemonist, n.
11. the quality or condition of being merry or cheerful. — jocund, adj.
12. Obsolete, a person who leads a merry life.
    Obsolete,
13. Obsolete. the condition or act of being pleasant.
14. the practice of making others happy through praise and felicitation. — macarize, v.
15. A condition of supreme well-being and good spirits:beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, felicity, gladness, joy, joyfulness.

Equivalents

Examples

“seek happiness”

“true happiness”

“bring happiness to others”

“Money can’t buy happiness.”

“She found happiness in the small things.”

“Yes, Aline, true happiness comes of true love, and true love should be independent of external influences.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

“All happineſſe bechance to thee in Millaine.”

“Some Beauties yet, no Precepts can declare, / For there's a Happineſs as well as Care.”

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