unhappiness

English

Etymology

From unhappy +‎ -ness or un- +‎ happiness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

unhappiness (countable and uncountable, plural unhappinesses)

1. The feeling of not being happy.

   Synonyms: melancholy, misery; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   • 2011 July 15, Cary L Cooper, Stephen Wood, “Happiness at work: why it counts”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

feeling of not being happy

• Bulgarian: нещастие (bg) n (neštastie)
• Czech: neštěstí (cs) n
• Dutch: ongelukkigheid
• Esperanto: malfeliĉo, malfeliĉeco
• Finnish: ilottomuus (fi)
• French: tristesse (fr) f, malheur (fr)
• German: Traurigkeit (de) f, Unglück (de) n
• Greek: δυστυχία (el) f (dystychía)
• Ido: desfeliceso (io)
• Irish: anaoibhneas m
• Japanese: 不幸 (ja) (fukō)
• Polish: nieszczęście (pl) n
• Portuguese: infelicidade (pt) f
• Romanian: nefericire (ro) f
• Russian: несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje)
• Slovak: nešťastie, trápenie
• Spanish: infelicidad (es)
• Swedish: olycka (sv) c
• Turkish: mutsuzluk (tr)
• Welsh: anhapusrwydd (cy)