different between happiness vs agrin

English

Etymology

From happy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæpin?s/, /?hæpin?s/
• Hyphenation: hap?pi?ness

Noun

happiness (countable and uncountable, plural happinesses)

2. (uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy.
   • 1877, W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer

     Yes, Aline, true happiness comes of true love, and true love should be independent of external influences.

3. (archaic, uncountable) prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

4. (archaic, uncountable) Good luck; good fortune.
   • 1643, — William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I-i

     All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!

5. (obsolete, countable) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.

   Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. — Alexander Pope.

Usage notes

Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment.

Synonyms

• felicity (somewhat dated or formal)
• blessedness (dated or religious)
• bliss (more exalted delight, suggesting heaven)
• high spirits
• joy, joyfulness, joyousness
• pleasure

Antonyms

• unhappiness
• haplessness
• suffering

Translations

References

• happiness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• Happiness (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• happiness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From a- +? grin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.???n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Adjective

agrin (not comparable)

1. grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess:

     Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave
     Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,
     And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream
     All that I would. But that large-moulded man,
     His visage all agrin as at a wake,
     Made at me through the press, and, staggering back
     With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came
     As comes a pillar of electric cloud,
     Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,
     And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes

Etymology 2

AGRN (“the name of the associated gene”) +? -in

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.???n/

Noun

agrin (plural agrins)

1. (neuroscience) a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development

Anagrams

• A ring, Grain, Ngari, Nigra, Ragin, Rigan, grain, nigra, raign, raing