Synonyms:
cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine
Meaning: the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"
Usage examples
You've got to have it," retorted Billy, still with that disarming, airy cheerfulness.
Interest, cheerfulness, and patience are tremendous forces to help the little deaf child.
His cheerfulness was unbounded, and it was matched by his goodness of heart, his broad charity, and common sense.
But, though Mr. Hume always talked of his approaching dissolution with great cheerfulness, he never affected to make any parade of his magnanimity.
The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
His cheerfulness was so great, and his conversation and amusements ran so much in their usual strain, that, notwithstanding all bad symptoms, many people could not believe he was dying.
She curtseyed as she passed, and, with the bewitching smile of modest cheerfulness, cried--"Do you bury yourselves in the house this fine evening, gents?" There was something in the voice! the manner!
At the noon luncheon Mary Louise was accorded a warm reception by the assembled boarders and this cordial welcome by her school-mates did much to restore the girl to her normal condition of cheerfulness.
From the commencement of the war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity became clouded; and even his usual attention to dress, required by his birth and station gave way to a negligence which was easily observable.