Definition of "joyousness" []

• The state of being joyous (noun)

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• "His joyousness is the reflection _in feeling_ of a conviction as to the nature of things, which he had verified in the darkest details of human life, and established for himself in the face of the gravest objections that his intellect was able to call forth."
• "These were heady days, filled with the kind of joyousness and pride I had believed just a few months prior to be non-existent in worlds like my own."
• ""It can be a kind of joyousness, an embrace of melancholy that defeats it," he said."