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joyousness
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Etymology
Noun
joyousness (countable and uncountable, plural joyousnesses)
- The state of being joyous.
- Synonyms: joy, joyfulness; see also Thesaurus:happiness
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 319:
- The bright sun, the sweet free air, brought their own joyousness with them; all nature seemed too glad for sorrow.
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