Gladness

n.

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State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. - Acts ii. 46. The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. - Esther viii. 17.

Noun

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gladness - experiencing joy and pleasure Synonyms: gladfulness, gladsomeness

beatification, bewitchment, blessedness, blissfulness, blitheness, blithesomeness, brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, cloud nine, delectation, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, eupeptic mien, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladsomeness, glee, good cheer, heaven, high spirits, hopefulness, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, optimism, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasantness, radiance, rapture, ravishment, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, seventh heaven, sunniness, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, winsomeness