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Definition: Blitheness |
BlithenessNoun1. A feeling of spontaneous good spirits; "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blitheness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Synonym: BlithenessSynonym: cheerfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cheerlessness (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "blitheness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Freude (gladness, gratification, pleasure, fun, joice, joy, joyousness). (various references) | |
Italian | giocondità (gaiety, mirth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ithenessblay.(various references) | |
Romanian | veselie (animation, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "blitheness" (pronounced 'Blithe"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: litheness, stilbenes. | |
-2 letters: sensible, setlines, shelties, stilbene, tensible, theelins. | |
-3 letters: behests, bethels, betises, enisles, enlists, ensiles, henbits, hessite, hitless, lisente, listees, listens, nestles, netless, seniles, sestine, setline, sheltie, silents, sithens, telesis, tensile, theelin, theines, tieless, tinsels. | |
-4 letters: behest, belies, besets, betels, bethel, betise, blites, blithe, elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, heists, henbit, inlets, insets. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-n-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: brotherliness, establishment, habitableness, thinkableness, unestablished. | |
+4 letters: charitableness, embellishments, establishments, habitualnesses, nonestablished, reestablishing. | |
+5 letters: blameworthiness, brotherlinesses, habitablenesses, inheritableness, preestablishing, reestablishment, thinkablenesses. | |
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