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chearfulness

chearfulness is the obsolete form of cheerfulness.

Meaning of cheerfulness

Noun

cheerfulness (usually uncountable, plural cheerfulnesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being cheerful; joy.
    • Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:8

Origin of chearfulness

From chearful + -ness.

Questions about chearfulness

What is chearfulness the obsolete form of?
Chearfulness is the obsolete form of cheerfulness.

Words near chearfulness in the dictionary

  1. cheare
  2. cheared
  3. cheares
  4. chearful
  5. chearfully
  6. chearfulness
  7. chearing
  8. chears
  9. Cheas
  10. Cheaster
  11. Cheasters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chearfulness (page history and authors); cheerfulness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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