joylessness

joylessness
    n 1: a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
    

Joyless \Joy"less\, a.
   Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. --
   {Joy"less*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"less*ness}, n.
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         With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. --Dryden.
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         Youth and health and war are joyless to him. --Addison.
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         [He] pining for the lass,
         Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.
                                                  --Dryden.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "joylessness":
      angst, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, bleakness, boredom,
      cheerlessness, comfortlessness, depression, discomfort,
      discomposure, discontent, dislike, dismalness, displeasure,
      disquiet, dissatisfaction, distress, distressfulness, dread,
      dreariness, dullness, emptiness, ennui, existential woe, flatness,
      grief, grievousness, grimness, humorlessness, infelicity,
      infestivity, inquietude, lack of pleasure, lamentability,
      lamentation, malaise, mirthlessness, misery, mournfulness, nausea,
      nongratification, nonsatisfaction, pain, painfulness, pathos,
      pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, regrettableness,
      sadness, savorlessness, sharpness, sorrowfulness, spleen,
      staleness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, uncheerfulness,
      uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unjoyfulness,
      unmirthfulness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit,
      woebegoneness, woefulness, wretchedness