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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHEERFULNESS, n. Life; animation; good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
He that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. Romans 12.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" [syn: cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine] [ant: uncheerfulness]
2: a feeling of spontaneous good spirits; "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better" [syn: cheerfulness, blitheness] [ant: cheerlessness, uncheerfulness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see cheerful

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cheerfulness Cheer"ful*ness, n. Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see cheerful

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Cheer, good spirits, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, contentedness, joyfulness, joy, animation, liveliness, lightsomeness, light-heartedness, blithesomeness, mirth, mirthfulness, sunshine, gleefulness, buoyancy, buoyancy of spirits, flow of spirits. 2. Willingness, glad alacrity, ungrudging consent, pleased promptitude.

Moby Thesaurus

Leibnizian optimism, Pollyannaism, auspiciousness, beatification, beatitude, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bright outlook, bright side, brightness, cheer, cheeriness, cloud nine, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, fair weather, favorableness, felicity, fortunateness, gaiety, gladness, glee, good auspices, good omen, happiness, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, luckiness, millennialism, optimism, optimisticalness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, perfectibilism, perfectionism, philosophical optimism, propitiousness, prosperousness, rapture, ravishment, rosy outlook, seventh heaven, silver lining, sunniness, sunny side, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, utopianism