Mental Process
happiness
hap·pi·ness [ hap-ee-nis ]
Subclass of:
Emotions
Definitions related to happiness:
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Feelings of contentment or joy; the overall experience of pleasure and meaning in life.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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Highly pleasant emotion characterized by outward manifestations of gratification.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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The feeling of being pleased and content.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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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, Inc., 2020
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