| NOUN | feeling | blitheness, cheerfulness | a feeling of spontaneous good spirits |
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| Meaning | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits. | |
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| Synonym | cheerfulness | |
| Narrower | buoyancy, perkiness | cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface |
| carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness | The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | |
| Broader | happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being |
| Opposite | cheerlessness, uncheerfulness | A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness |
| Spanish | buen humor | |
| Adjectives | blithe | carefree and happy and lighthearted |
| cheerful | pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | |
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