gladness
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The American Psychological Association defines joy as “a feeling of extreme gladness, delight or exultation of the spirit arising from a sense of well-being and satisfaction.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
He provoked Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to kill Balder, the god of joy and gladness.
From DOGO News ● Oct. 9, 2023
Some people who were previously ignored have now spoken up, and there's got to be some kind of a gladness about that, even if it makes us feel left behind sometimes.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023
He reckons that most fans — including his mother! — couldn’t name four players on the teams beyond the hyper-famous Lionel Messi, whose Argentina team visited Dhaka in 2011 to mass gladness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
But I will tell you this secret thing, which not one of them saw, not even August, the thing that brought me the most cause for gladness.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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