noun
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The emotion of being happy; joy.
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Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
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Good luck; good fortune.
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Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
Examples of happiness in a Sentence
I wish you all the happiness you so deserve.
Is being in control so important that you're willing to sacrifice the happiness of your only son?
Bubbling with happiness, she hummed as she strode through the corridors in search of Romas.
Didn't he realize that your happiness had value too?
Everyone deserves a chance at happiness, Deidre. Even rich girls running empires.
I would give my life for the happiness of them both.
But when my teacher presented me with a canary, my cup of happiness overflowed.
There was peace and happiness...
Since the first time I stepped inside I had a sense of all of the love and happiness and peace those walls have witnessed.
Suddenly a feeling of happiness seized him.
Happiness and pleasure caused it to grow faster.
This happiness is for those who have not in them what there is in you.
There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
But he was no merely destructive critic. He was determined to find a solid foundation for both morality and law, and to raise upon it an edifice, no stone of which should be laid except in accordance with the deductions of the severest logic. This foundation is "the greatest happiness of the greatest number," a formula adopted from Priestly or perhaps first from Beccaria.
Her happiness impressed all; nobody seemed to pity her.
It was a moment of supreme happiness.
While there is life there is happiness.
Only remember that your life's happiness depends on your decision.
A happiness lying beyond material forces, outside the material influences that act on man--a happiness of the soul alone, the happiness of loving.
If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them.
Happiness, fear, awe … The gloves were off this night.
Happiness can be restored.
And He is happier than any of us because He is greater than any of us, and also because He not merely SEES your happiness as we do, but He also MADE it.
And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Amelie's happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents.
I should die of happiness!
She saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre, and the first thought of this filled her heart with gladness.
To call it "pessimism" is merely to apply to it a characteristically Western principle according to which happiness is impossible without personality.
But now, at the commencement of the campaign, I should feel dishonored, not only in my comrades' eyes but in my own, if I preferred my own happiness to my love and duty to the Fatherland.
The subject was "What truths and sentiments is it most important to inculcate to men for their happiness?"
He was filled with happiness at his nearness to the Emperor.
Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
There was an expression of carefree happiness on the faces of both father and daughter.
So, don't let your teeth keep you from feeling true happiness.
Each time we met, I couldn't bring myself to ruin the happiness.
Sidgwick holds that intuition must justify the claims of the general happiness upon the individual, though everything subsequent is hedonistic calculus.
Or is this altogether absurd for us who say that happiness is an activity?
We only need you, dear Mr. Hitz, to complete our happiness.
In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing was for earthly love.
The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented itself to him.
Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained lifted in childlike happiness.
Only this wave is much more powerful than a wave of happiness.
They got out, and she lingered, sighing in happiness at the pleasure she was likely never to experience again after this week.
She is a thorough woman, but with none of the pettinesses, subterfuges, and mental reservations of her sex; she loves wide vistas and boundless horizons and instinctively seeks them out; she is concerned for universal happiness and takes thought for the improvement of mankind - thelastinfirmity and most innocent mania of generous souls.
On its southern banks, from east to west, dwell the "blameless Aethiopians" in, perfect happiness, and beyond it on the west, in the realms of eternal night, the "Cimmerians," wrapped in fogs and darkness.
The happiness or satisfaction of the individual was the end which dominated this scepticism as well as the contemporary systems of Stoicism and Epicureanism, and all three philosophies place it in tranquillity or self-centred indifference.
Instead, therefore, of the criterion of "the greatest happiness of the greatest number," Stephen has that of the "health of the organism."
Not only his political hopes, but his domestic happiness had suffered shipwreck.
It opens with a startling reversal of the common estimates of happiness and misery.
In good citizenship morality is practised out of regard to certain preconceived notions of the needs, the health and happiness of ourselves, our fellows and the community at large.
Hume, taking for granted that benevolence is the supreme virtue, points out that the essence of benevolence is to increase the happiness of others.