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cheerfulness

noun
/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/US/ˈt͡ʃɪəfəlnəs/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from cherefulnes

Definitions

  1. The state of being cheerful

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cheerfulness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cheerfulness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cheerfulness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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