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Happiness vs Richdom - What's the difference?

happiness | richdom |

As nouns the difference between happiness and richdom

is that happiness is the emotion of being happy; joy while richdom is wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.

happiness

English

Noun

(wikipedia happiness)
  • The emotion of being happy; joy.
  • * 1877 , ,
    • Yes, Aline, true happiness comes of true love, and true love should be independent of external influences.
  • (archaic) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
  • * 1643 , — , I-i
    • All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
  • Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
    • Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness , as well as care. — .

    Synonyms

    * felicity (somewhat dated or formal) * blessedness (dated or religious) * bliss * joy

    Usage notes

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

    Antonyms

    * unhappiness * haplessness

    References

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    richdom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.
  • *1879 , Ferdinand von Mueller, The native plants of Victoria, succinctly defined :
    • Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.
  • *1888 , Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales :
    • [...] and therefore still more approaches in its richdom of tan-principle to the genuine Sumach-leaves of Rhus coriaria.
  • *1984 , Wolfgang Schmittel, corporate design international :
    • Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks.
  • *2006 , José María Magone, The new world architecture :
    • In western Europe, the spirit of the bourgeois developed slowly towards a capitalist mentality. According to Werner Sombart, the bourgeois was a challenger of the nobility and used the accumulation of richdom to get access to the oligarchy of the different courts in Europe.