Defining happiness is not an easy task. According to the Oxford Dictionary, happiness is the state of pleasurable contentment of mind and deep pleasure in or contentment with one's circumstances.
Here´s an overview of further definitions and approaches to the question of what happiness is.
Empirical approaches
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Statistical approaches
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Want to know more about this? Take a look a this TED Talk from Dan Gilbert
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