Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Definitions and something to think about in the end


by Ivy Guinto Fernandez on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 6:59pm

Happiness -1. the quality or state of being happy.
                   2. good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.
Synonyms:1, 2. pleasure, joy, exhilaration, bliss, contentedness, delight, enjoyment, satisfaction. 

Happiness, bliss, contentment, felicity imply an active or passive state of pleasure or pleasurable satisfaction. Happiness results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good: the happiness of visiting one's family.

 Bliss is unalloyed happiness or supreme delight: the bliss of perfect companionship. 

Contentment is a peaceful kind of happiness in which one rests without desires, even though every wish may not have been gratified: contentment in one's surroundings. Felicity is a formal word for happiness of an especially fortunate or intense kind: to wish a young couple felicity in life.

Antonyms:
1. misery.

Misery- # The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
# Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress

What do you call an emotional state that is somewhere between being happy & miserable?  give me the right term...i am in that state now :(

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