What does Cheerfulness mean?

Definitions for Cheerfulness
cheer·ful·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshinenoun

    the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

    "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

  2. cheerfulness, blithenessnoun

    a feeling of spontaneous good spirits

    "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better"

Wiktionary

  1. cheerfulnessnoun

    The state of being cheerful; joy.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cheerfulnessnoun

    Etymology: from cheerful.

    With what resolution and cheerfulness, with what courage and patience did vast numbers of all sorts of people, in the first ages of christianity, encounter all the rage and malice of the world, and embrace torments and death? John Tillotson.

    I remember, then I marvelled to see her receive my commandments with sighs, and yet do them with cheerfulness. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

Wikipedia

  1. cheerfulness

    Happiness, in the context of mental or emotional states, is positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia.Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics.

ChatGPT

  1. cheerfulness

    Cheerfulness is the state or quality of being visibly joyful, happy, optimistic, or in good spirits. It is a positive emotional state characterized by feelings of contentment, pleasure, and satisfaction, often expressed through smiles, laughter, and a generally upbeat and positive attitude or mood.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cheerfulnessnoun

    good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Cheerfulness in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Cheerfulness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Cheerfulness in a Sentence

  1. William Feather:

    Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

  2. Charlotte Bronte:

    Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

  3. Joseph Addison:

    Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  4. Mary Wortley Montagu:

    There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

  5. Tieck:

    Whoever brings cheerfulness to his work, and is ever active, dashes through the world?s labours.

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