cheerfulness

Etymology

From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -ness.

noun

  1. The state of being cheerful; joy.
    The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 16

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