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