joyousness

English

Etymology

joyous +‎ -ness

Noun

joyousness (countable and uncountable, plural joyousnesses)

1. The state of being joyous.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 319:

     The bright sun, the sweet free air, brought their own joyousness with them; all nature seemed too glad for sorrow.