| NOUN | state | happiness, felicity | state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy |
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| feeling | happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being |
| Sounds | hhae'piynahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. | |
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| Synonym | felicity | |
| Attributes | happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent | |
| Narrower | blessedness, beatitude, beatification | A state of supreme happiness |
| radiance | An attractive combination of good health and happiness | |
| Broader | emotional state, spirit | The state / state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) |
| Opposite | unhappiness | state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief |
| Spanish | dicha, felicidad | |
| Catalan | benaurança, benaventurança, felicitat, joia | |
| Adjectives | happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
| happy | marked by good fortune | |
| Meaning | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being. | |
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| Attributes | happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent | |
| Narrower | belonging | happiness felt in a secure relationship |
| bonheur | (French) happiness and good humor | |
| cheerfulness, blitheness | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits | |
| contentment | happiness with one's situation in life | |
| gaiety, merriment | A gay feeling | |
| gladness, gladfulness, gladsomeness | Experiencing joy and pleasure | |
| rejoicing | A feeling of great happiness | |
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| Opposite | sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being |
| Spanish | alegría, felicidad | |
| Catalan | felicitat | |
| Adjectives | happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
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