| Gladness (n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. Thesaurus Entries beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blitheness, blithesomeness, brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, cloud nine, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, eupeptic mien, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladsomeness, glee, good cheer, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hopefulness, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, optimism, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasantness, radiance, rapture, ravishment, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, seventh heaven, sunniness, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, winsomeness |