happiness
positive emotional state
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Summary
happiness is a mood[1]. happiness draws 9,175 Wikipedia views per month (mood category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: basic emotion[3]
- Subclass of: positive emotion[4]
- Part of: psychological terminology[5], quality of life[6], music mood[7]
- Commons category: Happiness[8]
- Said to be the same as: joy[9], euphoria[10], Fiafia[11]
- Opposite of: sadness[12], unhappiness[13]
- Unicode character: 😃[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Happiness[15]
- Described at URL: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/bonheur/10144[16], https://baike.sogou.com/v179542252.htm[17]
- Depicted by: The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy[18]
- Described by source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory[19], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23], Larousse Online French Dictionary[24]
- Partially coincident with: gladness[25]
- Has characteristic: smile[26], life satisfaction[27]
- Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000042[28], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/EMRO_0004014[29], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMIT_0007413[30]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C72670[31]
- Different from: Felicitas[32], Happiness[33], Felicidad[34], Bonheur[35], Glück[36], Štěstí[37], Lykke[38], Felicidade[39], Szczęście[40], Felicità[41], Laime[42], Geluk[43], Šťastie[44], Lycka[45]
- Hashtag: happy[46]
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Outcome and Impact
Things named for happiness include International Day of Happiness[47], a world day[48], founded in 2013[49] and Lacus Felicitatis[50], a lacus[51].
Why It Matters
happiness has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] happiness is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Entities named for happiness include International Day of Happiness[47], a world day[48], founded in 2013[49] and Lacus Felicitatis[50], a lacus[51].