Gladness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: glad=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gladness, n. [AS. glædnes.].

 State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.  [1913 Webster]
" Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety, and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight. It sometimes expresses great joy."  [1913 Webster]
"They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart."  [1913 Webster]
"The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Gladness

beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, blithesomeness, brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, cloud nine, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, eupeptic mien, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladsomeness, glee, good cheer, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hopefulness, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, optimism, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasantness, radiance, rapture, ravishment, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, seventh heaven, sunniness, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, winsomeness

ROGET THESAURUS

Gladness

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.