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Definition of Cheerfulness
1. Noun. The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom. "Flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"
Generic synonyms: Attribute
Group relationships: Disposition, Temperament
Specialized synonyms: Good-humoredness, Good-humouredness, Good-naturedness, Good-temperedness
Attributes: Cheerful, Cheerless, Depressing, Uncheerful
Derivative terms: Cheer, Cheer, Cheery, Cheerful, Sunny
Antonyms: Uncheerfulness
2. Noun. A feeling of spontaneous good spirits. "His cheerfulness made everyone feel better"
Generic synonyms: Happiness
Specialized synonyms: Buoyancy, Perkiness, Carefreeness, Insouciance, Lightheartedness, Lightsomeness
Derivative terms: Cheerful, Cheerful
Antonyms: Cheerlessness
Definition of Cheerfulness
1. n. Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
Definition of Cheerfulness
1. Noun. The state of being cheerful; joy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cheerfulness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheerfulness
Literary usage of Cheerfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"cheerfulness is a most necessary element in the personality of the ... cheerfulness
is the state of being animated, which shows itself in the face, ..."
2. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the by William Scott (1820)
"cheerfulness is in the first place the best pro- \_J moter of health. Repinings,
and secret murmurs of the heart, give imperceptible strokes to (hose ..."
3. The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts by William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane (1916)
"Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. ... On the
contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite ..."
4. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the by William Scott (1820)
"Advantages of, and Motives to cheerfulness. SPECTATOR. cheerfulness is in the
first place the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of the ..."
5. The Young Husband: Or, Duties of Man in the Marriage Relation by William Andrus Alcott (1846)
"Cultivation of cheerfulness. French notions of cheerfulness. Three advantages of
cheerfulness. Difficulties to be surmounted. Female grumblers. ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. by Thomas Brown (1826)
"cheerfulness, which, at every moment, may be considered only as a modification of
... To suspend the mental cheerfulness, for any length of time, is, then, ..."
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