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Unhappiness


UNHAP'PINESS, noun

1. Misfortune; ill luck.

2. Infelicity; misery.

It is our great unhappiness when any calamities fall upon us, that we are uneasy and dissatisfied.

[But it usually expresses less than misery or wretchedness.]

3. Mischievous prank. [Not in use.]