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JOYFULNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does joyfulness mean?
• JOYFULNESS (noun)
The noun JOYFULNESS has 1 sense:
1. the emotion of great happiness
Familiarity information: JOYFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The emotion of great happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
joy; joyfulness; joyousness
Hypernyms ("joyfulness" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "joyfulness"):
rhapsody (an enthusiastic expression of emotion)
elation; high spirits; lightness (a feeling of joy and pride)
exultation; jubilance; jubilancy; jubilation (a feeling of extreme joy)
excitement; exhilaration (the feeling of lively and cheerful joy)
exuberance (joyful enthusiasm)
Derivation:
joyful (full of or producing joy)
joyful (full of high-spirited delight)
Context examples
In the joyfulness of family love everything for a short time was subdued, and the pleasure of seeing her, leaving them at first little leisure for calm curiosity, they were all seated round the tea-table, which Mrs. Morland had hurried for the comfort of the poor traveller, whose pale and jaded looks soon caught her notice, before any inquiry so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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