happinessn.[From Happy.]1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.()All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! (Shak.)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.()3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.()Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,
For there's a happiness, as well as care. (Pope.)()O happiness! our being's end and aim! (Pope.)Others in virtue place felicity,
But virtue joined with riches and long life;
In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease. (Milton.)His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little. (Shak.)