0 the quality of showing or involving no happiness:
She shrugged and responded with a degree of joylessness.
There's a joylessness to these songs.
He exuded a certain joylessness.
What is most striking is the joylessness of this book.
You can hardly blame Pip for his joylessness.
The girls have a pensive dignity as though they are pondering the burdens and joylessness of a future to be spent as caryatids.
Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
joylessness
