Sunday, February 18, 2007

HAPPINESS

–noun
1.the quality or state of being happy.
2.good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.

[Origin: 1520–30; happy + -ness]

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.
1. misery.


BLISS
–noun
1.supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
2.Theology. the joy of heaven.
3.heaven; paradise: the road to eternal bliss.
4.Archaic. a cause of great joy or happiness.
5.Slang. bliss out,
a.to experience bliss or euphoria: Just give them some bean sprouts and a little tofu and they bliss out.
b.to cause to become blissful or euphoric: a recording guaranteed to bliss out every Mozart fan.

I want to be happy and be the cause for bliss

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