joylessness
- noun
- /ˈdʒɔɪləsnəs/
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tristeza
- Is there really a value to understanding heartlessness, contempt, joylessness, cruelty, or dysregulated anger?
What passes on this island, this loss of craft and pride, this joylessness, this waste.
- What passes on this island, this loss of craft and pride, this joylessness, this waste.
- Is there really a value to understanding heartlessness, contempt, joylessness, cruelty, or dysregulated anger?
- It's if you grew up with this, it's like military precision, coldness, joylessness, orderliness, judgement, harshness.
Examples
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What passes on this island, this loss of craft and pride, this joylessness, this waste.
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Perhaps what turns you off is the inherent joylessness of orthorexia.
Blog text (29) -
It's if you grew up with this, it's like military precision, coldness, joylessness, orderliness, judgement, harshness.
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The abstinence movement represents a return to those bleak days, a return to repression, joylessness, terror, shame, and subordination.
Academic text (2004) -
This almost professional commitment to joylessness reinforces my conviction that Naipaul's sense of homelessness is real enough; it also reinforces my sense that there is a deep connection between his homelessness and what has happened to his writing.
Academic text (1990) -
After years of working in a joylessness office environment, she decided it was time to find a more fulfilling job.
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His joylessness became evident when he refused to join the celebrations at the party.
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The joylessness of the atmosphere at the meeting made it difficult to generate enthusiasm for the project.
Synonyms
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1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
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1.8
A feeling of sadness or not feeling satisfied with life
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3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
A feeling of sadness and no hope
A feeling of gloom and sadness that lowers your mood
A quiet feeling of sadness and low spirits
Antonyms
How Joyful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Joylessness is built from the simple word joy plus the part less, meaning 'without', and the ending -ness, meaning 'a state'. So joylessness literally means 'the state of being without joy', which is why it describes a lack of happiness or cheer.