thankfulness
- a word derived from thankful.
Example Sentences
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Their end-of-year reflections had been displayed side by side with the prisoners’ jars on the tree: a shared message of thankfulness and hope displayed for everyone who took part or who bothered to look.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
Tolstoy took it a step further: You can infer from his work that he thought the moments in which we feel the greatest thankfulness are those in which we are most noble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
To have that sold out just gives me an enormous sense of thankfulness.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
Soon a list of traits inspired by Kobe Bryant was carefully printed on a piece of yellow note paper taped to his wall, ideals like humility, unity, discipline, thankfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
It was a gift—from whom or what, I couldn’t say—and thankfulness is what I felt.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
