what is happiness?

oxford learners dictionaries define happiness as the state of feeling or showing

pleasure. cambridge dictionary, meanwhile, takes a simpler approach to interpreting
the word as the feeling of being happy. happiness, in my opinion, is the feeling that
accompanies sadness; in other words, happiness is the product of sadness.
for every reason there is to be argued with, we must have fallen prey to negative
feelings and thoughts at least once in our life.