Joyness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Joyness is a noun meaning (rare, nonstandard) The state or condition of joy; joyfulness.
Meaning
(rare, nonstandard) The state or condition of joy; joyfulness.
Example Sentences
All evening (with the foreknowledge of this now goading them into joyness) they had had a fine time. a viciously.
There is no better word for it than that coined by a boy from Russia in a composition on the Spring, written after only three months' study of English. He wrote of the “joyness” of the spring.
Still, we must not forget those who have tolled through hardships of the winter past, those who cannot see the joyness of life and the beauty of spring because of the bitterness of sickness, [...]
The spokesman of one KP group said to him: “Sair, there are much joyness in the hearts of the kitchen boys since you have come to be cook here.” Mailer enjoyed joking with them in Japanese, which he had learned a bit of.
Synonyms for joyness
Depending on context, synonyms include joy, joyhood.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include jocosity, unjoyfulness, jocoseness, jocundity, jocundness, jokiness.
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