GLADNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gladness mean? 

• GLADNESS (noun)
  The noun GLADNESS has 1 sense:

1. experiencing joy and pleasure

  Familiarity information: GLADNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLADNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experiencing joy and pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

gladfulness; gladness; gladsomeness

Hypernyms ("gladness" is a kind of...):

happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)

Derivation:

glad (cheerful and bright)

glad (feeling happy appreciation)

glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy)

 Context examples 

Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The gladness of our hearts must have shown upon our faces when on the step, close to the door, we saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His face shines like the sun, and he smiles with much gladness as he looks at the bones.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"A position!" she cried, betraying the gladness of her surprise in all her body, nestling closer to him, pressing his hand, smiling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Glad! My blessed boy, words can't express my gladness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All England waved her gladness by day and twinkled it by night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful tidings, and when the time was come she gave birth to a son, and the king was filled with gladness.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Although I was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My heart leaped with gladness, for I knew what he had in mind, and I gave him the bearings—west-north-west, and five hundred miles away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)