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Definition of Cheerlessness

1. Noun. A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness.

Definition of Cheerlessness

1. Noun. The state or characteristic of being cheerless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cheerlessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheerlessness

Literary usage of Cheerlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration by Henry Morton Stanley (1885)
"... the principal emporium of trade—Means of communication—Loneliness and cheerlessness—A refreshing change— African sunshine—The blood-curdling history of ..."

2. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"On this occasion, as is my custom when talking with young ladies, I did not neglect to speak of BYR'ON'S impiety, heartlessness, cheerlessness, and heaven ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"Who that has been on the water, in a dark, stormy, plashing night, does not understand the half cheerlessness, half satisfaction, with which the travellers, ..."

4. Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California by James Hale Bates (1887)
"... and its cheerlessness—A chilly day—A paragraph about the bull-fight—A visit to the Cathedral and a description of its interior and its devotees—Take ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
""Our women have an affection for flowers, ribbons, laces, silks, music, pets; but are singularly insensible to cheerlessness. They like dark rooms. ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"Cheerlessness is negative and repels customers. ... This is true because cheerlessness implies indifference, abstraction and unwillingness to make buying ..."

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