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blitheness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English *blithenesse, from Old English blīþnes, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþinassī, equivalent to blithe + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian blidens (“blitheness, joy”), Old High German blīdnissa (“joy”).

  1. inherited from *blīþinassī✻
  2. inherited from blīþnes
  3. inherited from *blithenesse✻

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being blithe.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blitheness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA