Some usages can include both of these factors. For instance Ruut Veenhoven has defined happiness as ' overall appreciation of one's life as-a-whole.' Kahneman has said that this is more important to people than current experience.
This usage is prevalent in dictionary definitions of happiness. For instance Daniel Kahneman has defined happiness as ' what I experience here and now'. the current experience of the feeling of an emotion (affect) such as pleasure or joy, or of a more general sense of 'emotional condition as a whole'.The word is mostly used in relation to two factors: 'Happiness' is the subject of debate on usage and meaning, and on possible differences in understanding by culture. 13 Contributing factors and research outcomes.11 Relationship to physical characteristics and to heritability.
