joyousness

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Noun
  • Being too cautious can cost you just as much joy as overspending ever could.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Sean Pursley - Audubon Photography Awards 2025 The National Audubon Society has announced the winning bird photos of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards featuring stunning imagery that highlights the beauty and joy of birds and fascinating avian behaviors.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Poehler plays Joy, the embodiment of happiness in the mind of main character Riley, in the Inside Out movies.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Co-written with Claire Douglas, Hannah Ellis, and Jason Massey, the song explores the uneasy tendency to sabotage our own happiness, pairing wistful guitars with Velasco's soaring vocals.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But his joyfulness around it was undeniable.
    Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time in Middle English, myrth(e) narrowed to mean joy, amusement, or gladness, often expressed in laughter and festivity.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yet on this evening, the four women—a German, a Pole, a Belgian and a Frenchwoman—were playing Beethoven’s masterpiece, clandestinely since Jewish musicians were not considered worthy of playing such magnificent German works and were doing so just for their own pleasure.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no separating the pain from the pleasures of life.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chef Anand Singh, formerly of Arbol at the Five-Star Las Ventanas al Paraíso, A Rosewood Resort, guides diners through Indian cooking techniques with dishes that surprise and delight.
    Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Barbecue fans can now sample these stylish delights 50% more often, for as of Labor Day weekend Barbs accomplished a long-time goal and is now open on Fridays as well as Saturdays and Sundays.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But like much gospel, the Staple Singers’ music hinges on a buoyant joyfulness that invites the listener to share in their exaltation.
    Santi Elijah Holley, New York Times, 22 July 2025
  • The latter song, like many Vandross classics, is jubilant, and its exaltations of liberation and hope take on special meaning when sung by Black characters, speaking to the long struggle for freedom.
    Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Those few extra inches are the difference between sitting pretty and reclining in bliss.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Joyousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyousness. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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