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SUNNINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
Example:
flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
Synonyms:
cheer; cheerfulness; sunniness; sunshine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sunniness" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Attribute:
cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)
cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunniness"):
good-humoredness; good-humouredness; good-naturedness; good-temperedness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)
Holonyms ("sunniness" is a part of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Derivation:
sunny (bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lightness created by sunlight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sunniness" is a kind of...):
light; lightness (the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunniness"):
cloudlessness (the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky)
