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 Happiness \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}.

   Usage: 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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