Gladness synonyms

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happiness (related)
(Archaic) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
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mirth
Gladness and merriment, especially when expressed by laughter.
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delight
Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment:
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cheer
Gaiety; gladness; joy
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beatitude
Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
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blessedness
The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
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bliss
Extreme happiness; ecstasy.
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cheerfulness
The state of being cheerful; joy.
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felicity
Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
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joy
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
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joyfulness
The state of being joyful
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happy (related)
A condition of supreme well-being and good spirits
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gladfulness
The quality of being gladful.
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gladsomeness
(Archaic) gladness
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thankfulness (related)
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sorrow (related)
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singleness of heart (related)
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exultation (related)
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fulness (related)
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rejoice (related)
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teares (related)
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dismay (antonym)
Dismay is defined as a sudden or total loss of courage.
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sadness (antonym)
(Uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
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unhappiness (antonym)
The feeling of not being happy
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woe (antonym)
Woe is a feeling of deep sorrow or grief.
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Find another word for gladness. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for gladness, like: happiness, mirth, delight, cheer, beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheerfulness, felicity, joy and joyfulness.
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Gladness Sentence Examples

  • He is poor and helpless and lonely now, but before another April education will have brought light and gladness into Tommy's life.

  • Hence it was the closing feast of the harvest gladness.

  • Hence we find that later thinkers of the Cyrenaic school felt themselves compelled to change their fundamental notion; thus Theodorus defined the good as" gladness " (Xapa) depending on wisdom, as distinct from mere pleasure, while Hegesias proclaimed that happiness was unattainable, and that the chief function of wisdom was to render life painless by producing indifference to all things that give pleasure.

  • Even the " joy and gladness " (Xapa, eu4po n vn) that accompany the exercise of virtue seem to have been regarded by them as merely an inseparable accident, not the essential constituent of well-being.

  • They did not know for some time after my recovery that the cruel fever had taken my sight and hearing; taken all the light and music and gladness out of my little life.

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