Usually means: Absence of joy or happiness.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheerlessness: Merriam-Webster
  2. cheerlessness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheerlessness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cheerlessness: Vocabulary.com
  5. cheerlessness: Wordnik
  6. cheerlessness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cheerlessness: Wiktionary
  8. cheerlessness: Dictionary.com
  9. cheerlessness: Rhymezone
  10. cheerlessness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. cheerlessness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. cheerlessness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheerlessness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  the state or characteristic of being cheerless

Similar:
uncheerfulness, uncheeriness, mirthlessness, charmlessness, disconsolateness, bleakness, spiritlessness, disconsolacy, unblissfulness, unjoyfulness, more...

Opposite:
happiness, joy, delight, glee, bliss

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Similar:
uncheerfulness, uncheeriness, mirthlessness, charmlessness, disconsolateness, bleakness, spiritlessness, disconsolacy, unblissfulness, unjoyfulness, more...

Opposite:
happiness, joy, delight, glee, bliss



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