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Synonyms for gladness
glad·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
gladness
Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow. Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring. Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.
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Synonyms:
blessedness, bliss, cheer, comfort, contentment, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, felicity, gaiety, gratification, happiness, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, rejoicing, satisfaction, triumph
Princeton's WordNet
gladness, gladfulness, gladsomenessnoun
experiencing joy and pleasure
Synonyms:
gladfulness, gladsomeness
Dictionary of English Synonymes
gladnessnoun
Synonyms:
joy, joyfulness, joyousness, happiness, gratification, delight, pleasure
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
gladnessnoun
Synonyms:
delight, pleasure, elation, exhilaration, jubilation, rejoicing
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2835 | comfort | |
#3729 | satisfaction | |
#4192 | pleasure | |
#4281 | joy | |
#7322 | happiness | |
#9338 | delight | |
#9500 | triumph | |
#11912 | enjoyment | |
#12130 | bliss | |
#12252 | cheer | |
#18873 | ecstasy | |
#23835 | felicity | |
#25552 | rapture | |
#35408 | gratification | |
#38478 | glee | |
#41894 | contentment | |
#43646 | rejoicing | |
#46164 | mirth | |
#61631 | gladness | |
#72806 | merriment | |
#79529 | gaiety | |
#98197 | blessedness |
How to use gladness in a sentence?
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness.
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
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