Entry Word: happiness

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a feeling or state of well-being and contentment <Martaʼs happiness was complete when she got her very own horse>

Synonyms blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, joy

Related Words elatedness, 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, satisfaction

Near Antonyms anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, woe, woefulness; blues, dejection, depression, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mournfulness

Antonyms misery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness

2 the feeling experienced when oneʼs wishes are met <finally found true happiness as a doctor in a poor rural area> — see pleasure 1