The emotion of great happiness

Usage examples of joyousness.

Thou dost possess a capacity for joyousness and for deep sorrow that bedims the torpid ardencies of others.

The Fair Realm was and remains a perilous land, aye, and in it were snares for the unwatchful and prison towers for the foolhardy, but it was far-reaching and unfathomed and lofty and filled with many things: all kinds of birds and beasts, shoreless oceans and stars beyond measure, beauty that is spellbinding and dangerous, gramarye both rich and strange, joyousness and sorrow as piercing as any Dainnan blade.

Never again could she know the joyousness of light-hearted girlhood, while nothing the world might give her could atone for the terrible trespass which had broken the harmony of her moral nature by the perpetual sense of unatoned wrong-doing.

Marche Indienne as Harry and his companion drew near, and the wild joyousness of the strain seemed to harmonise well with the scene around them.

Thou dost possess a capacity for joyousness and for deep sorrow that bedims the torpid ardencies of others.

Then Lord Valentine had been in the grip of terrible fatigue, but even so his features had displayed an inner light, a certain irrepressible joyousness, that no weariness could altogether dispel.

There was no twinkle in the picture of him, nor any of his inspective joyousness.

But it had sacrificed all the grace and carefully concealed art of Russian Ballet for a kind of athletic joyousness which was about as amusing as a high school gym exhibition.