joyousness

joyous | American Dictionary

joyous
adjective
us/ˈdʒɔɪ·əs/
full of joy:
a joyous occasion

joyously

adverbus/ˈdʒɔɪ·ə·sli/
At the airport, they hugged joyously.

Examples of joyous

joyous
Two of the most eloquent and joyous filters are those of the entrance and the classrooms.
Therefore, each technologically crafted cry and artificially extended joyous moan ironically testifies to the unavoidable and primitive dictates of human physiology.
Nor is the postulate of the empirical possibility of the cultivation of the joyous transfiguration of the moral in conflict with strong physicalism.
Waiting to see your child come off of the bus after a 3-day school trip can be exciting and full of joyous expectation.
The varied sounds of life, made joyous by distance and seeming unapproachableness, came faintly and died away to a silence.
Nothing can be more joyous to us after the acceptance of such a great gift.
For example, meditations aimed at release from ego-identification facilitate exercises aimed at cultivating the joyous transfiguration of the moral, and vice versa.
The joyous feeling, however, did not last long.
How, verbally and nonverbally, is the moment made "joyous"?
The emotional response to such music is instantaneous and unmediated by a belief that this is a joyous piece of music.
The second was a focus on joyous expression of faith, including singing, dancing, and ecstatic prayer.
There is a nimbus of joy around the joyous man.
The lifeaffirming, restorative strength of her direct and unaffected speech is fully communicated in these carefully prepared, joyous performances.
Above all, this is a gravely joyous work, quite dizzyingly beautiful, at a level where discussions of idiom, influence and up-to-dateness appear woefully beside the point.
In the context of the life course, a respondent explained that about forty years ago, when his children were younger, festivals had been joyous family occasions.
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