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The meaning of the word "Happiness" in English


Happiness n. : Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

Happiness 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.

Happiness n. : Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.

Example:
What defines Happiness in life or how is it one defines it, is Happiness related to bliss?

Taxonomy
happiness, Republicans, Democrats, correlation, positive emotions, pleasure, measure, Research, religiosity, Gratifications, depression, emotion, humans, Positive psychology, Journal of Happiness Studies, satisfaction, philosophers, Science.

Defination from the web:
happiness. ... Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this older sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia, and is ... 

synonyms
  (noun) felicity
  (noun) emotional state
  (noun) feeling
  (noun) spirit
antonyms
  (noun) sadness
  (noun) unhappiness


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