cheerfulness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

   flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room

2. 2
   noun

   a feeling of spontaneous good spirits

   Their cheerfulness made everyone feel better.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being cheerful; joy.

   Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.

Etymology

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