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| bliss |
very great happiness. |
| celebrate |
to do special things to honor a person or an occasion or to express happiness concerning some event. [1/3 definitions] |
| cheer |
glad feelings; happiness. [3/6 definitions] |
| crow2 |
to make sounds of happiness without using words. [1/3 definitions] |
| degree |
We often use the word "degree" when we talk about the level of something--how high or how low the level is. When you talk about how happy someone is, you are talking about their degree of happiness. If someone is happy to a high degree, it means they are very happy. Their level of happiness is high. [1/4 definitions] |
| enjoy |
to experience pleasure or happiness for (followed by "oneself"). [1/3 definitions] |
| enjoyable |
When something is enjoyable to you, it gives you pleasure or happiness. |
| excite |
to stir the emotions of, usually causing the heart to beat faster through expectation, fear, anger, or happiness. |
| excitement |
Excitement is something that causes people to feel strong emotion such as great happiness or great anxiety. [1/2 definitions] |
| feel |
When you feel an emotion, you have that emotion right now. If you feel sadness, you are sad. If you feel happiness, you are happy. [1/8 definitions] |
| feeling |
A feeling is an emotion. Things like love, hate, anger, and happiness are feelings. Feeling is also the ability to feel emotion, especially things like love and sympathy for other people. [1/5 definitions] |
| happiness |
Happiness is the feeling of being happy. At a birthday party, there is usually a lot of happiness. If you wish for happiness, you make a wish that you will be happy in your life. |
| heaven |
a state or condition of great happiness. [1/4 definitions] |
| joy |
a great feeling of happiness or pleasure; delight. [2 definitions] |
| joyful |
feeling, showing, or causing great happiness; glad; happy. |
| laugh |
to express happiness, amusement, ridicule, or other feelings, by making sounds with the mouth and changing the face to an expression like a smile. [1/3 definitions] |
| melt |
When someone's smile makes you melt, it means that you suddenly feel a strong sense of warmth and affection for that person. If a picture of cute puppies makes you melt, you suddenly feel a sense of warm happiness. [1/4 definitions] |
| move |
When you are moved by something like a story or movie, it means that it caused you to have strong feelings, especially happiness, pride, love for other people, or sadness. [1/11 definitions] |
| paradise |
Paradise is a place that is perfect. It is full of great beauty or joy. Paradise is also a state or feeling of perfect happiness. [1/2 definitions] |
| pleasure |
a feeling of happiness, delight, or joy. [2/3 definitions] |
| poison |
something that destroys or injures pleasure, happiness, or other good things. [1/5 definitions] |
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