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Meanings of happiness in English

Russian
счастье
Portuguese
felicidade
Spanish
dicha
Catalan
benaventurança
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Mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by pleasant emotions.

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            Usage of happiness in English
            1
            Indeed, the same choice may bring great happiness yet also great pain.
            Worlds of Honor
            2
            The best hope of happiness is helping families resolve problems from birth.
            The Guardian
            3
            OPINION: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
            The Irish Times
            4
            This gave the greatest happiness to the greatest number: quite easily done.
            The Guardian
            5
            Devices used to measure various health indicators can also gauge worker happiness.
            BBC
            6
            Conversely, you never hear it used for exercise, health or happiness either!
            The Irish Times
            7
            Topics - it's natural to believe that success will bring you happiness.
            Radio NZ
            8
            And people found happiness in the future according to their present lack.
            East of eden
            9
            Increasingly, however, researchers are focusing more on the pursuit of animal happiness.
            BBC
            10
            And, said Ingelhart, there is a strong correlation between happiness and democracy.
            Reuters
            11
            The grandmother remained silent, not to mar the happiness of the child.
            Heidi / (Gift Edition)
            12
            This week Doug addresses our typical level of happiness as we age.
            Radio NZ
            13
            Death is the end of all things-ofconsciousness; of sensation; of happiness.
            Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
            14
            Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
            Broke, usa: from pawnshops to poverty, inc.—how the working poor...
            15
            I felt the first inkling of true happiness I'd known in years.
            Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
            16
            We have seen it produce happiness in life, and courage in death.
            A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 / Taken from a View of the ...
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