Definition for Gladness:

• State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.

Synonyms for Gladness:

• n.

  •
  • happy.
  •bliss (noun)
  • gones.
  •celebration (noun)
  • rejoicing.
  •cheer (noun)
  • Cheeriness,
  • merry-making,
  • exuberance,
  • merriments,
  • good cheer,
  • jauntiness,
  • joyousness,
  • hopefulness.
  •cheerfulness (noun)
  • Light-heartedness.
  •content (noun)
  • content.
  •contentment (noun)
  • contentedness.
  •delight (noun)
  • de-light,
  • de light,
  • de-lights,
  • de lights.
  •ecstasy (noun)
  • in toxications,
  • in toxication,
  • in-toxications,
  • in-toxication,
  • ravishments.
  •enjoyment (noun)
  • re-laxation,
  • re creation,
  • re laxations,
  • re-laxations,
  • re laxation,
  • self indulgence,
  • enjoyings,
  • selfindulgence,
  • re creations.
  •exhilaration (noun)
  • head rushes,
  • enlivenments,
  • galvanizations,
  • up-lift,
  • ex-citation,
  • high spiritses,
  • up lifts,
  • invigorations,
  • vivifications,
  • ex citations,
  • up lift,
  • ex-citations,
  • ex citation,
  • up-lifts,
  • vitalizations,
  • a rushes,
  • electrifications.
  •gaiety (noun)
  • showinesses,
  • colorfulnesses,
  • whoopees,
  • revelings.
  •geniality (noun)
  • sweetness light,
  • enjoyablenesses,
  • warmheartednesses,
  • sunninesses.
  •gladfulness (noun)
  • gladfulness.
  •gladness (noun)
  • gladsomeness.
  •gleefulness (noun)
  • HS,
  • H.
  •happiness (noun)
  • hilarity,
  • animation,
  • jollity,
  • blitheness.
  •pleasure (noun)
  • euphoria,
  • complaisance,
  • well-being,
  • relish,
  • Bonniness,
  • brightness,
  • agreeability,
  • enthrallment,
  • amusement,
  • entertainment,
  • gratification.
  •rapture (noun)
  • at onenesses,
  • at oneness,
  • at-onenesses,
  • atonenesses,
  • atoneness.
  •satisfaction (noun)
  • good fortune,
  • satiety,
  • propitiation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • beatitude.

Paraphrases for Gladness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    joy.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    happiness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pleasure, excitement, cheer.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    glee, delight, rejoicing, thrill.

Antonyms for Gladness:

• n.

  • happiness
    sadness, melancholy, sorrow, pain, unhappiness, discouragement, depression, gloom, woe, trouble.
  • Other antonyms:
    calamity, discontentment, purgatory, irritation, agony, rage, desolation, downheartedness, fury, plaintiveness, upset, annoyance, disturbance, anguish, dissatisfaction, despondency, gehenna, exasperation, doldrums, pique, woefulness, dispiritedness, blues, disheartenment, dejection, discontentedness, discontent, ill-being, cheerlessness, uneasiness, sufferance, Desolateness, distress, vexation, anger, wretchedness, mournfulness, joylessness, restlessness, discomfort, displeasure, agitation, aggravation, misery, gloominess.

Gladness Sentence Examples:

• It wasn't that He liked pain and poverty, but He wanted everyone to know that it was the fear of them that shut people out of the kingdom of gladness.

• But I know something of the weakness of the heart, and its first impulse might naturally be that of gladness, although honor must have changed it almost instantly into deep regret.