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Definition of Sunniness
1. Noun. Lightness created by sunlight.
2. 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
Definition of Sunniness
1. n. The quality or state of being sunny.
Definition of Sunniness
1. Noun. The property of being sunny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sunniness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunniness
Literary usage of Sunniness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"THE sunniness OF IRISH LIFE. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE has said many hard things of
... That delightful quality of sunniness in Irish life is most appreciated by ..."
2. Anthology of Irish Verse by Padraic Colum (1922)
"In the deeper sunniness, In the place where nothing stirs, Quietly in quietness,
In the quiet of the furze, For a time they come and lie Staring on the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"The months we used to read of Are come to us again, With sunniness and sunniness
And rare delights of rain ; The lark is up, and says aloud, East and west 1 ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1881)
"... we should find it easier to bring a sunniness into the mental atmosphere of
those whom we influence, a sunniness genial and generous, bracing to the ..."
5. From Waterloo to the Peninsula: Four Months' Hard Labor in Belgium, Holland by George Augustus Sala (1867)
"... pennyworth of chocolate make yourself a fiesta" This sunniness, cheerfulness,
Heaven-sent brightness and joyousness of earthly things—a sunniness which ..."
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