unhappiness
unhappiness noun: the feeling of not being happy.
Noun
unhappiness (countable and uncountable, plural unhappinesses)
- The feeling of not being happy.
- While there may be some truth in the Anna Karenina principle that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, we increasingly have a better understanding of what makes for unhappiness and stress in the workplace.2011 July 15, Cary L Cooper, Stephen Wood, “Happiness at work: why it counts”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- melancholy, misery, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency
unhappiness meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
unhappiness in Hindi
- unhappiness
- नाख़ुशी nāxuśī
unhappiness in Bengali
- unhappiness
- অসুখ ośukh
unhappiness in Malayalam
- അസന്തുഷ്ടി
More languagesFewer languages
- unhappiness in Sanskrit
- एनस् énas
Examples of unhappiness in a sentence
- It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness.
- Your exhaustion and unhappiness alone should be enough to motivate him.
- Neither is Louis's unhappiness principally because of his lack of vampire colleagues.
Synonyms of unhappiness
- melancholy
- misery
- blueness
- tristesse
- mirthless
- blues
- crestfallenness
- dejection
- depression
- despondency
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Forms of unhappiness
| plural | unhappinesses |
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Origin of unhappiness
From unhappy + -ness or un- + happiness.
Questions about unhappiness
- What does unhappiness mean?
- Unhappiness means the feeling of not being happy.
- What is unhappiness in Hindi?
- Unhappiness in Hindi is नाख़ुशी (nāxuśī). See Unhappiness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unhappiness?
- Unhappiness is a noun.
- What is the plural of unhappiness?
- The plural of unhappiness is unhappinesses.
Words near unhappiness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhappiness (page history and authors); नाख़ुशी (Hindi) (page history and authors); unhappiness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অসুখ (Bengali) (page history and authors); unhappiness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); एनस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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