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Answer for the clue "Experiencing joy and pleasure ", 12 letters:
gladsomeness

Word definitions for gladsomeness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) gladness

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gladsomeness \glad"some*ness\ n. The state of experiencing joy and pleasure. Syn: gladness, gladfulness.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. experiencing joy and pleasure [syn: gladness , gladfulness ]

Usage examples of gladsomeness.

Cugel, can you imagine my surge of gladsomeness, the singing of songs in my heart, the crepitations of pure joy along the appropriate passages, when I looked at you, and discovered there in your cap the missing scale?

And now, though Jane did not acknowledge to herself that she regretted the old state of things, still less that she feared the future, it was undeniable that the past seemed very bright in her memory, and that something weighed upon her heart, forbidding such gladsomeness as she had known.

Cugel, can you imagine my surge of gladsomeness, the singing of songs in my heart, the crepitations of pure joy along the appropriate passages, when I looked at you, and discovered there in your cap the missing scale?