"define" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A few weeks ago, while trying to define happiness, she said: "The only way to be happy is to be of service to another.
- Since this is the case we should be aware of limits in attempting to define, quantify or track well-being or happiness.
- He defines happiness as "an abstract, moral concept.
- For example, a researcher might try to use job satisfaction to define overall happiness.
- A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
- Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
- Psychologists have defined happiness as a combination of life satisfaction and the relative frequency of positive and negative affect.
- And Tennessee Williams once famously defined happiness as "insensitivity."
- The characteristics that are looked for in happiness seem also, all of them, to belong to what we have defined happiness as being.
- The dictionary defines happiness as a feeling of pleasure or contentment.
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