cheerfulness

Other forms of cheerfulness

plural

cheerfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheerfulness

What does cheerfulness mean?

cheerfulness means "the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheerfulness?

cheerfulness has 3 syllables: cheer-ful-ness. The stress falls on "cheer". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɪɹfəlnəs/.

What is another word for cheerfulness?

Close synonyms include cheer, sunniness, sunshine, blitheness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cheerfulness?

The recorded antonyms are uncheerfulness, cheerlessness.

Is cheerfulness a common word?

cheerfulness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.