Antonyms for WISTFULNESSwist·ful·ness

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1. • Longing

Princeton's WordNet

1. wistfulnessnoun

   a sadly pensive longing

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1. Martin Clayton:

   This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even, it's not Leonardo, the great philosopher gazing into the distance. It's a flesh and blood man at the end of a career that had achieved a great deal, but also maybe failed to achieve a great deal as well.

2. Gilbert K. Chesterton:

   A sharp moon was fighting with the flying rags and tatters of a storm, and Valentin regarded it with a wistfulness unusual in such scientific natures as his.

3. The wise Pharoah Moe:

   Reading by itself is certainly not sufficient to breed wistfulness; a natural-born peculiarity of wisdom ought to exist in one's very brain cells, and reflected on his very deep beliefs and thoughts..

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