happiness
noun
1 happiness
State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
synonym: felicity.
Roget 377:
pleasure;
physical pleasure,
sensual pleasure,
sensuous pleasure;
bodily enjoyment,
animal gratification,
hedonism,
sensuality;
luxuriousness
etc.
adj.;
dissipation,
round of pleasure,
titillation,
gusto,
creature comforts,
comfort,
ease;
pillow
etc.
(support)
215;
luxury,
lap of luxury;
purple and fine linen;
bed of downs,
bed of roses;
velvet,
clover;
cup of Circe
etc.
(intemperance)
954.
treat;
refreshment,
regale;
feast;
delice [Fr.];
dainty
etc.
394;
bonne bouche [Fr.].
source of pleasure
etc.
829;
happiness
etc.
(mental enjoyment)
827.
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Roget 618:
good,
benefit,
advantage;
improvement
etc.
658;
greatest good,
supreme good;
interest,
service,
behoof,
behalf;
weal;
main chance,
summum bonum [Lat.],
common weal;
consummation devoutly to be wished;"
gain,
boot;
profit,
harvest.
boon
etc.
(gift)
784;
good turn;
blessing;
world of good;
piece of good luck [Fr.],
piece of good fortune [Fr.];
nuts,
prize,
windfall,
godsend,
waif,
treasure-trove.
good fortune
etc.
(prosperity)
734;
happiness
etc.
827.
[Source of good]
goodness
etc.
648;
utility
etc.
644;
remedy
etc.
662;
pleasure giving
etc.
829.
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Roget 827:
pleasure,
gratification,
enjoyment,
fruition;
oblectation,
delectation,
delection†;
relish,
zest;
gusto
etc.
(physical pleasure)
377;
satisfaction
etc.
(content)
831;
complacency.
well-being;
good
etc.
618;
snugness,
comfort,
ease;
cushion
etc.
215;
sans souci [Fr.],
without worry,
mind at ease.
joy,
gladness,
delight,
glee,
cheer,
sunshine;
cheerfulness
etc.
836.
treat,
refreshment;
amusement
etc.
840;
luxury
etc.
377.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.]
[Juvenal],
a sound mind in a sound body.
happiness,
felicity,
bliss;
beatitude,
beautification;
enchantment,
transport,
rapture,
ravishment,
ecstasy;
summum bonum [Lat.];
paradise,
elysium
etc.
(heaven)
981;
third heaven†,
seventh heaven,
cloud nine;
unalloyed happiness
&c.;
hedonics†,
hedonism.
honeymoon;
palmy days,
halcyon days;
golden age,
golden time;
Dixie,
Dixie's land;
Saturnia regna [Lat.],
Arcadia†,
Shangri-La,
happy valley,
Agapemone†.
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Dutch: blijheid, geluk, heil, zegen
Polish: szczęśliwość, szczęście
2 happiness
Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being.
Dutch: geluk
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