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单词 happiness
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happinessn.

Brit. /ˈhapɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈhæpinᵻs/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s happynes, 1500s happynesse, 1500s–1600s happines, 1500s–1600s happinesse, 1600s hapines, 1600s–1700s happyness, 1600s– happiness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happy adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < happy adj. + -ness suffix.In ten thousand happinesses at sense 1b (compare quots. 1678 and (with reference to a formal greeting) 1994) after Chinese wànfú < wàn myriad, the numeral ten thousand, also used to denote a very large number more generally (frequently in charms and blessings) + fortune, happiness.
The quality or condition of being happy.
1.
a. Good fortune or good luck in life generally or in a particular affair; success, prosperity. Now rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2a.In later use chiefly in to have the happiness to: to be fortunate enough or have the privilege to (do something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun]
selthc888
healc950
wealOE
goder-heala1225
prosperity?c1225
wealtha1300
statec1300
healtha1325
welfare1357
theedom1362
wealfulnessc1374
bonchiefa1387
felicity1393
boota1400
wella1400
wealsc1400
well-doingc1440
prosperancea1460
happiness?1473
quartfulness1483
brightnessa1500
goodnessa1500
sonsea1500
thriftiness?1529
prosperation1543
well-being1561
prosperousness1600
fair world1641
thrivingness1818
goldenness1829
palminess1875
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 10v All my lyf hath ben nouryshyd in happynes.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ciiiv Suche seldome sauour fortunes happynes.
a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 2685 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 296 Fortoune, þat in hie happynes Settis seire mene.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 14 Wish me partaker in thy happinesse, When thou do'st meet good hap. View more context for this quotation
a1704 T. Brown Ess. Satire Ancients in Wks. (1730) I. 24 Whether..we follow them by the only force of natural happiness, or instinct.
1781 J. Moore View Society & Manners Italy II. xlix. 52 We all bowed to the ground; the supplest of the company had the happiness to touch the sacred slipper.
1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Feb. 5 I had the happiness to sit as the representative of that large and opulent town for a period of six years.
1922 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 313/1 Sure we cannot have had the happiness to meet you for nothing. 'T was ordained you should walk in upon us.
1972 J. Lane Severed Crown vi. 29 He replied with some tartness that he had the happiness to know his royal father better than I, and desired me not to be too confident in the knowledge of how his ghost would speak.
b. An instance or cause of good fortune. Frequently in plural (in later use often as part of a stylized formula for wishing good fortune).Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune
hapc1225
whatec1330
fortune1390
felicity1393
good luck1481
lucka1500
Lady Lucka1535
happiness1540
goodhap1557
faustity1656
serendipity1754
kokum1851
bonanza1878
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus i. i. sig. Ciiiv How great a happynes or quietie (it is) to a father to haue his chyldren by al thinges.
1597 H. Lok Ecclesiastes To Rdr. sig. Aiiijv So much the more despising these instable & imperfect happinesses of this life.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 28 Nature hath..heaped into this teritorie..all those delightfull happinesses.
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion ii. 18 Ten thousand happinesses wait on you.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 277 It is a very great Happiness, and particular Providence of God, that the Sea and Rivers here seem..to contest.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 55 It was therefore one of our greatest Happinesses.
1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxviii. 2 Heaped up happinesses in the plural belong to that man who fears the Lord.
1994 J. Dent-Young & A. Dent-Young tr. Shi Nai'an & Luo Guanzhong Broken Seals (2002) iii. 72 The young woman wiped away her tears and came forward to wish them ten thousand happinesses.
2.
a. The state of pleasurable contentment of mind; deep pleasure in or contentment with one's circumstances.the greatest happiness of the greatest number: see greatest adj., n., and adv. Phrases a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > [noun]
queemnesseOE
queemc1175
suffisancec1374
pleasingc1400
complacencec1436
resting?a1475
satisfaction1477
happinessa1500
thankfulness1500
contention1516
contentationa1533
contenting1541
satisfiedness1571
content1578
contentedness1581
appeasement1586
contentment1597
heart's content1600
acquiescence1612
pleasedness1626
well-apaidness1633
well-pleasedness1633
complacency1643
acquiescency1646
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun]
selthc888
bliss971
eadinessOE
seleOE
eadilaikc1175
blissfulnessc1374
seelinessc1374
felicityc1386
seelihead14..
beneurte1480
brightnessa1500
happinessa1500
glee1579
faustity1656
eudemony1727
a song in one's heart1862
the bluebird of happiness1911
a1500 Ratis Raving (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 1254 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 36 My sone, Set nocht thi happynes In na syk plays mar na les.
1534 U. von Hutten in tr. L. Valla Treat. Donation Syluester Pref. sig. C.iv Who can prayse and meruayle ynough at your filycyte & happynes, most blessed Leo.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 357 Like beast [that] hath no hope of happinesse or blis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 26 To sowre your happinesse, I must report The Queene is dead. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 621 Let it suffice thee that thou know'st Us happie, and without Love no happiness . View more context for this quotation
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. v. §3 Happiness consists in the attainment of the highest and most lasting natural good.
1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 1 O Happiness! our Being's End and Aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy name.
1851 H. Spencer Social Statics Introd. 5 Happiness signifies a gratified state of all the faculties.
1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 217 Each one's happiness may be defined as the surplus centre when the total of pain is subtracted from the total of pleasure.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 78 How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
2012 Independent 19 Mar. 29/5 (caption) He said happiness and a life without tension were key to his longevity.
b. An instance or source of pleasure or contentment.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure
honeycombOE
sweetness?c1225
dainty1340
sweet1377
delicec1390
lust1390
pleasancec1390
pleasingc1390
well-queema1400
well-queemnessa1400
douceurc1400
delectation?a1425
pleasure1443
pleaserc1447
delectabilitiesa1500
deliciositiesa1500
honeydew1559
delicacy1586
fancy1590
sugar candy1591
regalo1622
happiness1637
deliciousness1651
complacence1667
regalea1677
sweetener1741
bon-bon1856
Bones1869
jam1871
true love1893
nuts1910
barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915
G-spot1983
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus 111 I am transform'd into a happiness Cannot be figured.
1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. 150 It is a happiness to a man to be able to amuse himself with writing.
1859 Harper's Mag. Jan. 205/1 Mother asked me if I did not think it a happiness to be able to bestow pleasure on those poor friends of hers?
1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley xiv. 101 Such a happiness that it has all come right.
1904 Rep. 18th Ann. Meeting Harvard Law School Assoc. 104 It is a happiness to me to put my feet upon the soil of Massachusetts.
1978 W. S. Graham Let. 9 Dec. in Nightfisherman (1999) 353 I saw a very red robin this morning. What small happinesses.
1996 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 June Who but a hypochondriac would state that his idea of a perfect happiness was not having a headache?
3. Successful or felicitous aptitude, fitness, suitability, or appropriateness; felicity. Also: an instance of this. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > aptness or appositeness
rightness?a1425
aptnessa1538
happiness1550
felicity1605
aptitude1643
patness1653
appositeness1664
apropos1860
1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. E.v By hys singuler vigilancye sought them oute, by his hyghe prudence espyed them,..& with great happines toke them quyte awaye.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 176 Claudio He is a very proper man. Prince He hath indeede a good outward happines . View more context for this quotation
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 131 The charge of the whole fleete she committed to Charles Howard of Effingham..of whose happinesse she had a very good perswasion.
1656 J. Denham Destr. Troy Pref. sig. A3 There being certain Graces and Happinesses peculiar to every Language.
1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 41 He..reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. i. 158 Possessing no vigour of language, and gifted with no happiness of expression.
1926 F. L. Lucas Authors Dead & Living 86 If his ideas are common as flies, the happiness of his style and his personality has made them as rare and as immortal as flies in amber.

Phrases

happiness is ——: used to express that contentedness is achieved by means of the stated item, experience, situation, etc.
ΚΠ
1960 C. M. Schultz in Chicago Tribune 25 Apr. iii. 12/8 (caption) Happiness is a warm puppy.
1968 J. Lennon & P. McCartney (title of song) Happiness is a warm gun.
1972 K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me xviii. 159 Happiness is..just-a-few-earlies in the vegetable garden.
1994 Action Asia Aug. 88/3 If you're hardcore about mountain-biking, happiness is a great off-road trail that offers gut-wrenching uphills, heart-stopping downhills and an environment that combines a sense of real exploration with wild, untouched natural beauty.
2004 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 23 Apr. (Final ed.) b5/4 (advt.) Happiness is never having to ask directions.

Compounds

General attributive, esp. with reference to measuring the level of contentment of a person or group of people, as happiness index, happiness level, etc.
ΚΠ
1912 Financial Rev. of Reviews Aug. 37 Whatever the new expenditure, the happiness index soon returns to its old figure, whatever that may be, determined by unseen facts of the individual psyche.
1930 Sci. News Let. 15 Nov. 308/2 Among other findings from the happiness survey are: the state of a man's finances is no reliable gauge of his happiness.
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 44 571 The happiness index provided a rough measure which could be correlated with personality, sexual, and other background factors, the object being to discover factors that might be used in predicting the probable degree of adjustment in a given marriage.
1955 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 Mar. 7/2 (advt.) Getting liberal dividends twice a year on insured savings keeps you reminded that you're building permanent security. Try that on your happiness meter!
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 276 Perhaps she can try a glass or two of tonic wine? More likely her G.P. will..prescribe a happiness pill.
1998 Independent 24 Nov. i. 5/2 (caption) Happiness indicators’, such as land use, will be used to gauge the average Briton's quality of life.
2012 Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 23/1 Happiness levels throughout life form a U-curve, reaching their lowest ebb in the mid-forties before climbing back up into old age.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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