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Happiness   /hˈæpinəs/   Listen
noun
Happiness  n.  
1.
Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. "All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!"
2.
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 with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
3.
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; used especially of language. "Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care."
Synonyms: Happiness, Felicity, Blessedness, Bliss. Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal appetites; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations; blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the purest social, benevolent, and religious affections; bliss denotes still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the joy anticipated in heaven. "O happiness! our being's end and aim!" "Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease." "His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little."





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"Happiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the poilus converse who are suddenly placed under the spell of a town. More and more they rejoice in the beautiful scene, so neat and incredibly clean. They resume possession of life tranquil and peaceful, of that conception of comfort and even of happiness for which in the ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
... I set my face towards the pleasant places, and I keep it in that direction. It is the cult of some to be miserable; it is mine to be happy. The person who does most good in the world is the person who reflects the greatest amount of happiness. Therefore, I am a philanthropist. You shall learn from me, my young friend, how to banish some of that gloom from your face. You shall learn how ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... her fingers to the bone, and live on oatmeal, to give her father the comforts he required; but to have Eugene brought down from his natural station was more than she could endure. His welfare must be secured at the cost not only of Aurelia's sweet presence, but of her happiness; and Betty durst not ask herself what more she dreaded, knowing too that she would probably be quite incapable of altering her father's determination whatever it might be, and that he was inclined to ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... although there are fears, there are hopes also. The people have preserved this, their own chosen Constitution, for forty years, and have seen their happiness, prosperity, and renown grow with its growth, and strengthen with its strength. They are now, generally, strongly attached to it. Overthrown by direct assault, it cannot be; evaded, undermined, NULLIFIED, ...
— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various
... finish the sentence, for it seemed to her selfish to throw her right to happiness into the scale against Gianluca's life. But she ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford


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