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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles" [syn: wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia] [ant: ill-being]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1582 the state of being happy, healthy, or prosperous ; welfare

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Well-being Well"-be`ing, n. The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also wellbeing Someone's well-being is their health and happiness. Singing can create a sense of wellbeing... His work emphasised the emotional as well as the physical well-being of children. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See welfare.

Moby Thesaurus

Easy Street, Hygeia, abundance, acceptance, advantage, affluence, amusement, animal pleasure, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, benefit, benison, blessing, bloom, bodily pleasure, boon, carnal delight, clover, comfort, composure, content, contentedness, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, ease, easy circumstances, easy street, emotional health, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, entire satisfaction, euphoria, felicity, fitness, fleshpots, flush, forepleasure, fruition, fulfillment, fun, gain, glow, good, gracious life, gracious living, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, happiness, health, hearty enjoyment, intellectual pleasure, interest, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, mental health, peace of mind, physical condition, physical fitness, physical pleasure, pleasure, profit, prosperity, prosperousness, quiet pleasure, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, rosiness, satisfaction, security, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, solid comfort, success, sweetness of life, the affluent life, the good life, thriving, thriving condition, titillation, upward mobility, velvet, voluptuousness, weal, wealth, welfare, world of good, zest