Synonyms of happiness

happiness

noun

1

as in joy

a feeling or state of well-being and contentment

her happiness was complete when she got her very own house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joy
• bliss
• blissfulness
• enjoyment
• joyfulness
• beatitude
• pleasure
• blessedness
• satisfaction
• gladness
• felicity
• ecstasy
• delight
• elation
• warm fuzzies
• exultation
• euphoria
• cheerfulness
• comfort
• exhilaration
• intoxication
• glee
• rapture
• gayety
• mirth
• joyousness
• high
• nirvana
• contentedness
• gratification
• jubilation
• exuberance
• triumph
• transport
• glory
• ravishment
• jollity
• paradise
• seventh heaven
• lightheartedness
• elatedness
• heaven
• merriness
• jubilance
• gaiety
• delectation
• rapturousness
• content
• gleefulness
• cheer
• gladsomeness
• jocundity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sadness
• unhappiness
• misery
• calamity
• sorrow
• wretchedness
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• depression
• desolation
• sufferance
• melancholy
• ill-being
• gloom
• dejection
• blues
• despondency
• gloominess
• joylessness
• hell
• doldrums
• woefulness
• mournfulness
• purgatory
• cheerlessness
• disheartenment
• plaintiveness
• desolateness
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness
• Gehenna

2

as in contentment

the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met

finally found true happiness as a doctor in a poor rural area

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contentment
• enjoyment
• satisfaction
• pleasure
• content
• joy
• delight
• gratification
• contentedness
• gladness
• joyfulness
• relish
• amusement
• glee
• delectation
• bliss
• entertainment
• cheerfulness
• ecstasy
• elation
• exultation
• euphoria
• felicity
• comfort
• gayety
• rapture
• exuberance
• jubilation
• exhilaration
• intoxication
• jollity
• gleefulness
• afterglow
• pleasance
• diversion
• gaiety
• heaven
• restfulness
• elatedness
• cheer
• ease
• joie de vivre

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unhappiness
• dissatisfaction
• sadness
• misery
• discontent
• unhappiness
• sorrow
• displeasure
• depression
• anguish
• wretchedness
• woe
• melancholy
• anger
• discontentment
• gloom
• irritation
• discontentedness
• dejection
• desolation
• distress
• despondency
• annoyance
• exasperation
• rage
• aggravation
• vexation
• joylessness
• fury
• disturbance
• agitation
• discomfort
• upset
• restlessness
• uneasiness
• dispiritedness
• pique

3

as in fitness

the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting

the striking happiness of the phrase "fatal attraction" as the title for an erotic thriller

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fitness
• relevance
• usefulness
• felicity
• validity
• applicability
• relevancy
• rightness
• appropriateness
• suitability
• aptness
• propriety
• seemliness
• convenience
• suitableness
• properness
• felicitousness
• compatibility
• appositeness
• fittingness
• agreeableness
• acceptability
• harmoniousness
• congruity
• justifiability
• connection
• adequacy
• pertinence
• bearing
• expediency
• satisfactoriness
• materiality
• expedience
• serviceableness
• adequateness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wrongness
• unfitness
• infelicity
• impropriety
• incompatibility
• unsuitability
• inappropriateness
• incongruity
• disagreeableness
• incongruence
• irrelevance
• inexpediency
• inaptness
• unseemliness
• irrelevancy
• meaninglessness
• inapplicability
• inappositeness
• improperness
• immateriality
• pointlessness
• incongruousness
• inharmoniousness
• inexpedience
• unbecomingness