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BLITHENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of spontaneous good spirits
Example:
his cheerfulness made everyone feel better
Synonyms:
blitheness; cheerfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("blitheness" is a kind of...):
happiness (emotions experienced when in a state of well-being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blitheness"):
buoyancy; perkiness (cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface)
carefreeness; insouciance; lightheartedness; lightsomeness (the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you)
Derivation:
cheerful (pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic)
