happinesses
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]happinesses
- 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
[edit]Happinesses is used when there are multiple forms or measures of happiness which are to be distinguished. Typically happiness is uncountable.