gladness

Example Sentences

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The American Psychological Association defines joy as “a feeling of extreme gladness, delight or exultation of the spirit arising from a sense of well-being and satisfaction.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

He provoked Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to kill Balder, the god of joy and gladness.

From DOGO News • Oct. 9, 2023

Some people who were previously ignored have now spoken up, and there's got to be some kind of a gladness about that, even if it makes us feel left behind sometimes.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2023

He reckons that most fans — including his mother! — couldn’t name four players on the teams beyond the hyper-famous Lionel Messi, whose Argentina team visited Dhaka in 2011 to mass gladness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

Now a kind of gladness began to penetrate into the Row and to spread out from there.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck