unhappiness

From unhappy +‎ -ness or un- +‎ happiness.

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unhappiness (countable and uncountable, plural unhappinesses)

1. The feeling of not being happy.
   • 2011 July 15, Cary L Cooper, Stephen Wood, “Happiness at work: why it counts”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     While there may be some truth in the Anna Karenina principle that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, we increasingly have a better understanding of what makes for unhappiness and stress in the workplace.