Synonyms for cheerfulness
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Noun
1. Joyfulness
joyfulness, joy, happiness, cheer, gladness, hilarity, jollity, elation, mirth, merriment, exuberance, sunshine, felicity, delight, glee, exhilaration, high spirits, cheeriness, sunniness, mirthfulness, blithesomeness, joviality
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being cheerful; joy.
Forms
- Plural
- cheerfulnesses → joyfulnesses, joys, happinesses, cheers…
Example sentences
- joy Everyone shouted for joy when they heard the news.
- happiness To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
- cheer He tried to cheer up his wife, but wasn't able to.
- joyfulness I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself.
- optimism It is with hopelessness that true optimism begins.
- readiness Readiness for a crisis is a key factor in success.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cheerfulness | rising | |
| joy | rising | |
| happiness | rising | |
| cheer | rising | |
| joyfulness | rising | |
| optimism | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- joy1
- 4 letters
- glee1
- 5 letters
- cheer1, mirth1
- 7 letters
- delight2, elation3, jollity
- 8 letters
- sunshine2, optimism4, felicity4, hilarity4, gladness
- 9 letters
- happiness3, readiness3, merriment, joviality, sunniness
- 10 letters
- exuberance4, joyfulness, cheeriness, blitheness
- 12 letters
- exhilaration5, mirthfulness
- 14 letters
- blithesomeness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delight2 = 2 syllables).