happinesses

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Noun

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happinesses

  1. plural of happiness
    • 1994, Necip Fikri Alican, Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof, page 110:
      Notwithstanding the temptation to use familiar mathematical or sociopolitical models to explain Mill's elusive notion, the general happiness of a population is neither the sum total or arithmetic average of the several happinesses of individual persons in the population...

Usage notes

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Happinesses is used when there are multiple forms or measures of happiness which are to be distinguished. Typically happiness is uncountable.