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joylessness

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joy·less  (joils)
adj.
Cheerless; dismal.
joyless·ly adv.
joyless·ness n.
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Noun1.joylessness - a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
cheerlessness, uncheerfulness - a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness
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They stood fixed, their baffled hearts looking out of their eyes with a joylessness pitiful to see.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
I have heard many noises since, but nothing that gave me such an intimate impression of the savage instincts hidden in the breast of mankind; these yells of festivity suggested agonizing fear, rage of murder, ferocity of lust, and the irremediable joylessness of human condition: yet they were emitted by people who were convinced that they were amusing themselves supremely, traditionally, with the sanction of ages, with the approval of their conscience - and no mistake about it whatever
The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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