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Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving
such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the
possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort
may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is
comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow.
Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick
person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more
vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than
pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy
pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a
mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should
properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a
low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and
tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and
rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we
speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or
spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a
brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious
pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal
than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and
action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring
than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness
or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat
transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost
beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring.
Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the
sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as,
the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.
Antonyms:
See synonyms for GRIEF.
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HAPPY.
Synonyms:
blessed, cheering, gay, lucky, rejoiced, blissful, cheery, glad, merry, rejoicing, blithe, delighted, jocund,
mirthful, smiling, blithesome, delightful, jolly, pleased, sprightly, bright, dexterous, joyful, prosperous,
successful, buoyant, felicitous, joyous, rapturous, sunny. cheerful, fortunate,
Happy primarily refers to something that comes "by good hap," a chance that brings prosperity, benefit, or
success.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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And grasps the skirts of happy chance.
TENNYSON In Memoriam lxiii, st. 2.
In this sense happy is closely allied to fortunate and lucky. (See FORTUNATE.) Happy has, however, so far
diverged from this original sense as to apply to advantages where chance is not recognized, or is even
excluded by direct reference to the divine will, when it becomes almost equivalent to blessed.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.
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