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BLITHENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blitheness mean?
• BLITHENESS (noun)
The noun BLITHENESS has 1 sense:
1. a feeling of spontaneous good spirits
Familiarity information: BLITHENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of spontaneous good spirits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
blitheness; cheerfulness
Context example:
his cheerfulness made everyone feel better
Hypernyms ("blitheness" is a kind of...):
happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blitheness"):
buoyancy; perkiness (cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface)
carefreeness; insouciance; lightheartedness; lightsomeness (the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you)
Derivation:
cheerful (pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic)
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