cheerfulness

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Variant of cheerful

cheerful definition

cheer·ful (c̸hir′fəl)

adjective

  1. full of cheer; joyful
  2. filling with cheer; bright and attractive a cheerful room
  3. willing; ready a cheerful helper

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cheerfulness Synonyms

cheerfulness

n.

good humor, gaiety, geniality, hopefulness; see happiness 1, humor 3, optimism 2.


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cheerfulness quotes

Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent† Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

-Addison,Joseph

You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

-Edwards, Oliver

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