Synonyms of happiness

happiness

noun

ˈha-pē-nəs 

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

Examples of happiness in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Grief and happiness on March 9 In the Hughes family, March 9 has always been a difficult date. —Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Make common sense and taking responsibility for your happiness a priority. —Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024

Should the nation’s doctor continue to dispense prescriptions for happiness and love? —Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024

During the section of the novel concerned with her harassment, even the language grows hallucinatory, saturated in horror tropes, underscoring that May, who loves her children and loses sleep over their safety and happiness, has become unrecognizable to herself: a monstrous mother. —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024