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gladness
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gladness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, blitheness, cheer, cheerfulness, delight, felicity, gaiety, glee, high spirits, hilarity, jollity, joy, joyousness, mirth, pleasure |
| Antonyms: | sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | contentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, happiness |
| Synonyms: | complacency, content, contentedness, ease, equanimity, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, peace, pleasure, repletion, satisfaction, serenity |
| Antonyms: | discomfort, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, happiness |
| Synonyms: | contentment, delectation, ecstasy, enchantment, felicity, fruition, gladness, glee, gratification, hilarity, jollity, joy, joyance, mirth, pleasure, rapture, relish, satisfaction, transport |
| Antonyms: | depression, disappointment, dismay, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delectation, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven, trance, transport, twilight zone |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
| Antonyms: | despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enjoyment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight in something |
| Synonyms: | amusement, delectation, diversion, enjoying, entertainment, fruition, fun, gladness, gratification, gusto, happiness, hedonism, indulgence, joy, loving, luxury, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, relish, satisfaction, savor, self-indulgence, sensuality, thrill, triumph, zest |
| Antonyms: | displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | exhilaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, excitement |
| Synonyms: | a rush, animation, cheerfulness, delight, elation, electrification, elevation, enlivenment, euphoria, exaltation, excitation, firing, gaiety, galvanization, gladness, gleefulness, head rush, high spirits, hilarity, inspiration, invigoration, joy, joyfulness, liveliness, mirth, quickening, sprightliness, stimulation, uplift, vitalization, vivacity, vivification |
| Antonyms: | agitation, depression, discouragement, unhappiness, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | geniality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme niceness |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, cheerfulness, cheeriness, congenialness, conviviality, cordiality, enjoyableness, friendliness, gladness, good cheer, good nature, gratefulness, happiness, heartiness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyousness, kindliness, kindness, mirth, pleasance, pleasantness, sunniness, sweetness and light, warmheartedness, warmth |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, irritation, moodiness, unfriendliness, unhappiness |
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