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Definition: Joylessness |
JoylessnessNoun1. A feeling of dismal cheerlessness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joylessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "joylessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Freudloskeit. (various references) | ||||
Manx | neuvoggoilid, groamid (blues, cheerlessness, dejection, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, moodiness, moping, moroseness, sombreness, sternness, sullenness). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oylessnessjay | ||||
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Words beginning with "joylessness": joylessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-j-l-n-o-s-s-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: slynesses. | |
-3 letters: noseless, soleness. | |
-4 letters: joneses, joyless, lessens, lessons, loesses, oyesses, selsyns, slyness, sonless. | |
-5 letters: enjoys, jesses, josses, lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, losses, nesses, selsyn, senses, yesses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-j-l-n-o-s-s-s-s-y" | |
+2 letters: joylessnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 79 6C 65 73 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- --- -.--. .-.. . ... ... -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01111001 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o y l e s s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0079 006C 0065 0073 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4481917871858580718585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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