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happiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of happiness

1 a feeling or state of well-being and contentment

  • her happiness was complete when she got her very own house
Synonyms of happiness

beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, joy, warm fuzzies
Words Related to happiness

elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high, intoxication

ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana, paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport

delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure

cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth

content, contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph
Near Antonyms of happiness

agony, anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, sufferance, woe, woefulness

blues, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolateness, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mournfulness, plaintiveness

Gehenna, hell, purgatory
Antonyms of happiness

calamity, ill-being, 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
Synonyms of happiness

content, contentedness, contentment, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gladness, gratification, pleasure, relish, satisfaction
Words Related to happiness

afterglow

bliss, felicity, glee, gleefulness, joy, pleasance

amusement, diversion, entertainment

elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, intoxication

ecstasy, euphoria, heaven, rapture

cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), jollity, joyfulness, jubilation

joie de vivre

comfort, ease, restfulness
Near Antonyms of happiness

misery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness

anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, woe

dejection, depression, despondency, dispiritedness, gloom, melancholy

aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, pique, vexation

anger, fury, rage

agitation, distress, disturbance, upset

discomfort, restlessness, uneasiness
Antonyms of happiness

discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, displeasure, dissatisfaction, unhappiness

3 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 of happiness

appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, felicitousness, felicity, fitness, fittingness, properness, propriety, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness
Words Related to happiness

agreeableness, compatibility, congruity, harmoniousness

applicability, bearing, connection, justifiability, materiality, pertinence, relevance, relevancy, validity

acceptability, adequacy, adequateness, convenience, expedience, expediency, satisfactoriness, serviceableness, usefulness
Near Antonyms of happiness

disagreeableness, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inexpedience, inexpediency, inharmoniousness, unbecomingness

immateriality, inapplicability, irrelevance, irrelevancy

meaninglessness, pointlessness
Antonyms of happiness

improperness, impropriety, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, infelicity, unfitness, unseemliness, unsuitability, wrongness

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