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Hap"pi*ness, n. [From Happy.] 1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
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All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak.
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2. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
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3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.
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Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,
For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope.

Syn. -- Happiness, Felicity, Blessedness, Bliss. Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal appetites; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations; blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the purest social, benevolent, and religious affections; bliss denotes still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the joy anticipated in heaven.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Pope.
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Others in virtue place felicity,
But virtue joined with riches and long life;
In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease. Milton.
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His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little. Shak.
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