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Merriness

Merriness \Mer"ri*ness\, n. The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.

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merriness

n. The property of being merry.

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merriness

n. the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, humorousness]

Usage examples of "merriness".

There was a kind of growling merriness, with drink, cursing, fumbling at plackets, gaming, a richer though darker version of the dayworld of the free.

The merriness that had brightened her when she had conducted the tofu torture was gone.