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Mirthfulness

Mirthful \Mirth"ful\, a.

  1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.

  2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face.

    Mirthful, comic shows.
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.

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mirthfulness

n. The property of being mirthful.

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mirthfulness

n. great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, glee, gleefulness]

Usage examples of "mirthfulness".

He did not understand why I was weeping, and the tone he took made me pass from sweet affliction to a strange mirthfulness which made him go astray once more, as he thought I had got mad.

But it was as much a release of tensions that had been accumulating, as the mirthfulness of the situation.