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Princeton's WordNet

  1. booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thrivingadjective

    very lively and profitable

    "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"

Wiktionary

  1. flourishingnoun

    The action of the verb flourish; flowering

Wikipedia

  1. Flourishing

    Flourishing is "when people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time," living "within an optimal range of human functioning." It is a descriptor and measure of positive mental health and overall life well-being, and includes multiple components and concepts, such as cultivating strengths, subjective well-being, "goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience." Flourishing is the opposite of both pathology and languishing, which are described as living a life that feels hollow and empty. It is a central concept in positive psychology, developed by Corey Keyes and Barbara Fredrickson.

ChatGPT

  1. flourishing

    Flourishing refers to the process of developing rapidly and successfully, growing vigorously, or thriving in terms of health, happiness, prosperity, and productivity. It's a state of reaching one's full potential in various aspects of life such as personal well-being, social connections, and professional achievements. It also implies a balance between personal growth and contributions to one's community or society.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flourishing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flourishing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flourishing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of flourishing in a Sentence

  1. Tom Hart:

    It’s not only a symbol of American values — it's smart global health policy, an outbreak in North Korea or Iran or somewhere else where we might have tensions, viruses travel no matter where they’re flourishing, and I don’t want a variant cooking up in some remote part of the world, anywhere in the world, which then might get around the current vaccines that we’ve got.

  2. David Saperstein:

    During my visit in August, I found that despite widespread continuing government abuses and restrictions, many place of worship were nonetheless full and flourishing, in areas of the country where the government's hand was lighter, faith-based social service and welfare agencies operate homeless shelters, orphanages, soup kitchens, and made highly positive contributions to the well-being of their society.

  3. Nancy Pelosi:

    Under the strong leadership of President Biden, America is firmly committed to smart, strategic engagement in the region, understanding that a free and flourishing Indo-Pacific is crucial to prosperity in our nation and around the globe.

  4. Canadian Pelley:

    After the incident( murder), many blue-chip businesses and many governments continued to do business in Saudi,( and the) entertainment business is still flourishing, there was Italian Super Cup with AC Milan and Juventus( in January) and Cristiano Ronaldo scored the winning goal and celebrated, and Cristiano Ronaldo and Mariah Carey tried to find any kind of criticism for Cristiano Ronaldo, yet Cristiano Ronaldo and Mariah Carey players were criticized. Why was golf singled out ? I was perplexed why Cristiano Ronaldo and Mariah Carey were.

  5. Though Lee:

    The solution to climate change is not this un-serious resolution that we're considering this week in the Senate, but rather the serious business of human flourishing, the solution to so many of our problems, at all times and in all places, is to fall in love, get married and have some kids.

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