〈美〉在某些司法区，对于因丧失生活享乐或生活价值本身而判决给予的赔偿，它与受伤害者或死者的经济价值损失赔偿分别计算。许多法院则将该种损失包括在因遭受残疾或身体痛苦而获得的损害赔偿中。

“快乐损害赔偿”由英文hedonic damages，翻译而来。

Hedonic damages is a legal term that first emerged in 1985 in the research of Stan V. Smith, who was a PhD student in economics at the University of Chicago. The term refers to damages for loss of enjoyment of life, the intangible value of life, as distinct from the human capital value or lost earnings value.

快乐损害赔偿的由来：

Hedonic damages was used in a legal case for the first time in 1987 in the case of Sherrod v. Berry, 827 F.2d 195 (7th Cir. 1987). and testified as an expert witness in regards to the amount of the hedonic award, the first such testimony proffered nationwide. It has since been used in additional legal decisions, in law review articles, and in law and economics articles in the United States. See for example Professor Cass Sunstein's University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 340, July 2007. The concept of hedonic damages has been admitted in testimony in state and federal courts. Research on the implications of hedonic damages theory has been published in various peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Smith co-authored the first textbook on hedonic damages in 1990, published by Anderson Publishing, Ohio.

（参考译文：1987年，在Sherrod v. Berry, 827 F.2d 195 (7th Cir. 1987)一案中，快乐损害赔偿首次被用于法律案件中，并作为专家证人就快乐裁决的数额作证，这是全国范围内首次提供此类证词。此后，它被用于更多的法律判决、法律评论文章以及美国的法律和经济学文章中。例如，见Cass Sunstein教授的芝加哥大学法律与经济学，Olin工作文件第340号，2007年7月。在州和联邦法院的证词中已经承认了快乐损害赔偿的概念。关于快乐损害赔偿理论的影响的研究已经发表在各种同行评议的期刊文章中。1990年，史密斯博士与人合著了第一本关于快乐型损害赔偿的教科书，由俄亥俄州的安德森出版社出版。）