joylessness
11joy — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French joie, from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium, from gaudēre to rejoice; probably akin to Greek gēthein to rejoice Date: 13th century 1. a. the emotion evoked by well being, success, or good… …
12Depressive personality disorder — (also known as melancholic personality disorder) is a controversial psychiatric diagnosis that denotes a personality disorder with depressive features. Originally included in the American Psychiatric Association s DSM II, depressive personality… …
13joyless — joylessly, adv. joylessness, n. /joy lis/, adj. 1. without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war. 2. causing no joy or pleasure. [1300 50; ME joyles. See JOY, LESS] Syn. 1. sad, cheerless, gloomy, dismal, miserable. Ant. 1. joyous …
14Beat movement — American social and literary movement of the 1950s and 60s. It is associated with artists communities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Its adherents expressed alienation from conventional society and advocated personal release and… …
15anhedonia — noun /ˌan.hɪˈdəʊ.nɪə,ˌæn.hiˈdoʊ.ni.ə/ The inability to feel pleasure. Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness, discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring. Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to… …
16sunlessness — noun a) The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine. In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds. b) Dreariness,… …
17pessimism — I noun blighted hope, cheerlessness, cynicism, dashed hopes, defeatism, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperation, despondence, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downcastness …
18angst — Synonyms and related words: agitation, all overs, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, boredom, cankerworm of care, care, cheerlessness,… …
19anguish — Synonyms and related words: ache, aching heart, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, agony of mind, ail, angst, anxiety, atrocious pain, bale, barb the dart, bitterness, blanch, bleed, bleeding heart, blench, boredom, break down, bring… …
20anxiety — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, abulia, ache, ado, alacrity, alienation, all overs, angst, anguish, animation, annoyance, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, anxiousness, apathy, appetite, apprehension, apprehensiveness, avidity, avidness …
