joyfulness

joyfulness
    n 1: the emotion of great happiness [syn: {joy}, {joyousness},
         {joyfulness}] [ant: {sorrow}]
    

Joyful \Joy"ful\, a.
   Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful
   heart. "Joyful tidings." --Shak.
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         My soul shall be joyful in my God.       --Is. lxi. 10.
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         Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. --Pope.
   -- {Joy"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ful*ness}, n.
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joyfulness \joyfulness\ n.
   the emotion of great happiness.

   Syn: joy, joyousness.
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56 Moby Thesaurus words for "joyfulness":
      amusement, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness,
      bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, delectation,
      delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation,
      exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, frivolity, fun, gaiety,
      gladness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, heaven, high glee,
      high spirits, hilariousness, hilarity, intoxication, jocularity,
      jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyance, joyousness,
      laughter, levity, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness,
      overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment,
      seventh heaven, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness