joyful
adjective
full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
joyfulness
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a word derived from
joyful.
Example Sentences
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There’s a beauty and joyfulness in the performance above and beyond what’s being performed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
The presenter and former tennis player says she's doing Strictly for the "joyfulness and learning new steps".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
Written in three movements with an ancient Greek-inspired text by Friedrich Hölderlin, “Schicksalslied” descends from radiant joyfulness into dark despair before resolving into something akin to solace.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
“But then it was like a joyfulness because I was sitting there thinking: ‘Like, wow, what a run.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
When the crowd exploded in applause, clapping and whistling, the man could not clap, because he was holding his sons legs, and so he just smiled and smiled, his face suddenly young with joyfulness.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
