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thankfulness

thankfulness noun: the state of being thankful.

Noun

thankfulness (usually uncountable, plural thankfulnesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being thankful.
    • All our Diſcontents about what we want, appeared to me, to ſpring from the want of Thankfulneſs for what we have.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 153
    • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46

thankfulness meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Punjabi

thankfulness in Hindi

state of showing thanks
कृतज्ञता kŕtajñatā

thankfulness in Marathi

thankfulness, gratitude
कृतज्ञता krutadnyatā

thankfulness in Urdu

thankfulness, gratitude
شکر śukr

thankfulness in Punjabi

thankfulness, gratitude
شکر śukr, ਸ਼ੁਕਰ śukr

Synonyms of thankfulness

Forms of thankfulness

pluralthankfulnesses
alternative form (obsolete)thankefulnesse

Origin of thankfulness

From thankful + -ness.

Questions about thankfulness

What does thankfulness mean?
Thankfulness means the state of being thankful.
What is thankfulness in Hindi?
Thankfulness in Hindi is कृतज्ञता (kŕtajñatā). See Thankfulness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is thankfulness?
Thankfulness is a noun.
What is the plural of thankfulness?
The plural of thankfulness is thankfulnesses.

Words near thankfulness in the dictionary

  1. thankes
  2. thankful
  3. thankfuller
  4. thankfullest
  5. thankfully
  6. thankfulness
  7. thankfulnesses
  8. thankies
  9. thankin'
  10. thanking
  11. thanking one's lucky stars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thankfulness (page history and authors); कृतज्ञता (Marathi) (page history and authors); شکر (Urdu) (page history and authors); شکر (Punjabi) (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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