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Joylessness

noun
1.
A feeling of dismal cheerlessness.





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"Joylessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Seeing much of this joylessness, and inaptitude, both of body and mind, for a lot which would be full of blessings for those prepared for it, we could not but look with deep interest on the little girls, and hope they would grow up with the strength of body, dexterity, simple tastes, and resources that would fit them ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... shall know. We shall criticise the technique of thunderstorms. "And what is a sunset after all?" The reflection of a large body on rarefied air. Through analysed heaven and over analysed fields it trails its joylessness around the earth. ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee


Words linked to "Joylessness" :   uncheerfulness, cheerlessness, joyless


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