Mental Process
happiness Audio
hap·pi·ness [ hap-ee-nis ]
Subclass of:
Emotions
Definitions related to happiness:
  • Feelings of contentment or joy; the overall experience of pleasure and meaning in life.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Highly pleasant emotion characterized by outward manifestations of gratification.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The feeling of being pleased and content.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Happiness, in psychology, a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive evaluation of one's life and accomplishments overall--that is, subjective well-being. Happiness can be...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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