| NOUN | attribute | cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
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| feeling | cheerfulness, blitheness | a feeling of spontaneous good spirits |
| Meaning | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom. | |
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| Example | "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" | |
| Synonyms | cheer, sunniness, sunshine | |
| Attributes | cheerful | Full of or promoting cheer |
| depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | |
| Part of | disposition, temperament | Your usual / usual mood |
| Narrower | good-temperedness, good-humoredness, good-humouredness, good-naturedness | A cheerful willingness to be obliging |
| Broader | attribute | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity |
| Opposite | uncheerfulness | not conducive to cheer or good spirits |
| Spanish | alegría, vida | |
| Catalan | alegria | |
| Adjectives | cheerful | being full of or promoting cheer |
| Meaning | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits. | |
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| Example | "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better" | |
| Synonym | blitheness | |
| 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 | cheerful | pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic |
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