Synonyms for cheerfulness
cheer·ful·ness

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1. cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshinenoun

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

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

   Synonyms:
   sun, sunshine, blitheness, sunniness, cheer, fair weather, sunlight, temperateness

   Antonyms:
   cheerlessness, uncheerfulness

2. cheerfulness, blithenessnoun

   a feeling of spontaneous good spirits

   "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better"

   Synonyms:
   sunniness, blitheness, sunshine, cheer

   Antonyms:
   cheerlessness, uncheerfulness

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1. • Happiness

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1. cheerfulnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   liveliness, animation, joyfulness, joy, gladness, mirthfulness, cheer, buoyancy of spirits, flow of spirits, good spirits

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1. cheerfulnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   cheeriness, buoyancy, elation, exhilaration, alacrity, jocundity, light-heartedness, optimism

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1. List of paraphrases for "cheerfulness":

   cheer

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1. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia:

   It's difficult to write about anything cheerful, because there's all too little cheerfulness here. On the other hand, God doesn't abandon us. The sun shines, the birds sing, and this morning we heard the bells sounding matins.

2. 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.

3. Thomas Fuller:

   An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

4. Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!:

   No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

5. Joseph Addison:

   Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.