gross national happiness
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular indicator of a country's quality of life, developed in Bhutan in the 1970s.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the gross national happiness, and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content."
- "Kannemann is working with three other U.S. universities to build a methodology that can be exported to other countries. Each country can then rank itself, as Britain will be doing, on a scale of gross national happiness."
- "The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago."