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# happiness

«happiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The feeling of being happy, glad and pleased** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (happiness; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The feeling of being happy, glad and pleased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#m1)

2) A state of having a good life with joy and contentment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE and wellbeing lessons it is one of the main feelings, with sadness, anger and fear. In stories: «tears of happiness», «filled with happiness», «live in happiness». It names the feeling as a thing, while «happy» describes a person.

### examples

- Her face was full of happiness when she saw the puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x1)
- Money cannot always buy happiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x2)
- Playing with friends brings me happiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x3)
- He cried tears of happiness at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x4)
- Kindness spreads happiness to others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x5)
- The story ends with peace and happiness for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x6)
- What brings you happiness? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x7)
- No one can find happiness without work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no «a» and no plural («a lot of happiness», not «happinesses»). Spelling: «happy» → «happiness» (y changes to i, then -ness). Opposite: «unhappiness», «sadness».

### In the corpora

- [Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/16/)
- [Consonant + y turns into i: happy, happily, happiness; easy, easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/7/)
- [A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, happiness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/19/)
- [Faces show basic feelings such as happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «happiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.