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a feeling or state of well-being and contentment<Martaʼs happiness was complete when she got her very own horse>Synonymsblessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, joyRelated Wordselatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, intoxication; ecstasy, euphoria, heaven, rapture, rapturousness; delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, lightheartedness; content, contentedness, gratification, satisfactionNear Antonymsanguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, woe, woefulness; blues, dejection, depression, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mournfulnessAntonymsmisery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness
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the feeling experienced when oneʼs wishes are met<finally found true happiness as a doctor in a poor rural area>— see pleasure 1
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