happiness

Other forms of happiness

plural

happinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about happiness

What does happiness mean?

happiness means "state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in happiness?

happiness has 3 syllables: hap-pi-ness. The stress falls on "hap". In IPA it is /ˈhæpinəs/.

What is another word for happiness?

Close synonyms include felicity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of happiness?

The recorded antonyms are unhappiness, sadness.

Is happiness a common word?

happiness is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.