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cheerfulness

[ UK /t‍ʃˈi‍əfə‍lnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɪɹfəɫnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of spontaneous good spirits
    his cheerfulness made everyone feel better
  2. the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
    flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room

How To Use cheerfulness In A Sentence

  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
  • The cheerfulness he preached was always qualified by an awareness of the real world's iniquity.
  • She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
  • Yea," is thy word to me with the tongue: say it to me with thy mind, and with the word mourn heavily, that thou mayest have continual cheerfulness. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
  • They're home movies, with all the cheerfulness and awkwardness the term implies, except that the home is Obersalzberg, Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where Hitler is seen giving a persuasive—unless you pay close attention—impression of a full human being. 'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale
  • Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
  • Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
  • flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
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