Happiness vs. Euphoric — What's the Difference?

The term happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, eudaimonia, flourishing and well-being.Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.

Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness

Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy

A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

Cheerful; willing

Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria

Characterized by good luck

Productive of euphoria, causing great joy

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous

A drug that causes euphoria; a euphoriant.

Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination

Strongly experiencing a feeling of well-being; feeling euphoria. Opposite of dysphoric.

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination

Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

(uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy.

Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.

Good luck; good fortune.

Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

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.

Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; - used especially of language.

State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

Emotions experienced when in a state of well-being