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unhappyness

unhappyness is the rare spelling of unhappiness.

Meaning of unhappiness

Noun

unhappiness (countable and uncountable, plural unhappinesses)

  1. 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

Origin of unhappyness

From unhappy + -ness.

Questions about unhappyness

What is unhappyness the rare spelling of?
Unhappyness is the rare spelling of unhappiness.

Words near unhappyness in the dictionary

  1. unhappy number
  2. unhappy numbers
  3. unhappy triad
  4. unhappy triads
  5. unhappying
  6. unhappyness
  7. unhaptenized
  8. unharangued
  9. unharassable
  10. unharassed
  11. unharassing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhappyness (page history and authors); unhappiness (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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