1, 2. Happiness,bliss,contentment,felicity imply an active or passive state of pleasure or pleasurable satisfaction. Happiness results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good: the happiness of visiting one's family.Bliss is unalloyed happiness or supreme delight: the bliss of perfect companionship.Contentment is a peaceful kind of happiness in which one rests without desires, even though every wish may not have been gratified: contentment in one's surroundings.Felicity is a formal word for happiness of an especially fortunate or intense kind: to wish a young couple felicity in life.
OTHER WORDS FROM happiness
o·ver·hap·pi·ness,noun
Words nearby happiness
happen on, happen-so, happenstance, happi coat, happily, happiness, happy, happy as the day is long, happy camper, happy-clappy, happy dust
Touch also increases levels of serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin—the hormones related to happiness.
The pandemic problem tech can’t solve: Physical touch|Danielle Abril|August 23, 2020|Fortune
We hope you’ve been enjoying our wedding gift, the espresso machine, and we wish you many years of happiness together.
A guide to giving gifts for postponed and shrunken weddings|Brooke Henderson|August 20, 2020|Fortune
Researchers have argued for decades about whether certain facial expressions have evolved to express specific emotions, such as happiness, anger and disgust, regardless of one’s culture.
Ancient sculptures hint at universal facial expressions across cultures|Bruce Bower|August 19, 2020|Science News
It’s spawned so many other indexes of human well-being — the index of social progress, people talking about gross national happiness.
Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429)|Stephen J. Dubner|August 13, 2020|Freakonomics
This transition makes even more sense when coupled with the idea of deviating from using GDP as a measure of societal growth, and instead adopting a well-being index based on universal human values like health, community, happiness, and peace.
The Global Work Crisis: Automation, the Case Against Jobs, and What to Do About It|Peter Xing|August 6, 2020|Singularity Hub
The health, happiness and well-being of men, children and women improve.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He should be free, filling the world with happiness, love and his fighting spirit.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But she cautions against depending on getaways for happiness.
9 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder|DailyBurn|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their bright eyes and wide, happy smiles have spread a feeling of happiness and hope across the art world and beyond.
Takashi Murakami’s Art From Disaster|Justin Jones|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Stop Making Sense is the only current movie that's a dose of happiness from beginning to end.
Everything that he did was with a view to her comfort and happiness.
Unfettered|Sutton E. Griggs
Scott was too kind, too humane, to disappoint us, the crowd of human beings who find much of our happiness in dreams.
Rob Roy, Volume 1., Illustrated|Sir Walter Scott
Could she hate a country, however barren and rough, if it had saved the health and happiness of her future husband?
The Call of the Canyon|Zane Grey
I can take care of you and protect you, and I will devote my life to your happiness.
A Modern Chronicle, Complete|Winston Churchill
I would give all I possess, my hope of future happiness even, if I could prove that Jimmie died from angina pectoris.
The Red Seal|Natalie Sumner Lincoln
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