'joyfulness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is defined as the quality or state of being joyful or full of joy. Example: The room was filled with joyfulness as the children played happily with their new toys on Christmas morning.
More surprising by far was the atmosphere of celebration and joyfulness – just plain fun – that pervaded the proceedings.
A more interesting question may well involve the ex-governor's joyfulness test, and whether a fresh Bush campaign would be a cheering, uplifting business, or a hard, expensive, bitter slog.Mr Bush speaks sense when he talks of the need for Republicans to compromise occasionally, if they want to govern.
Panels showing a night spent stealing away to a club, a tender waltz or a kiss to mark the start of a romance give the story a sweet joyfulness.
"And yet amid all this misery, CBUK - and I don't know how they do this - brings warmth, comfort, a guiding hand, a way through, even colour and joyfulness, and a renewed opportunity for love as a family reknits itself after tragedy".
There is a touching joyfulness about the photograph, and the smiles appear natural, not forced at all.
By contrast, he describes the surprising joyfulness of the demonstrations he witnesses, a collective jubilation he associates with the popular dream of liberty before it descended into today's nightmare.
Yet something of nature's joyfulness and spontaneity is retained.
The show revealed what Rossellini intended it to: Bergman's playfulness, joyfulness, experimentalism, naturalism.
Both tragedy and joyfulness have been part of the metamorphosis that brought these cases before Scalia and his colleagues — dancing until there is a hole in your stockings as well as sitting by a hospital bed.
That gluttony was offset by the deep joyfulness of a shimmering, new, bastard style: ragtime, whose "clear chords hung in the air like flowers," and which took over the city, rich and poor, black and white.
(The joyfulness of their rebellion is conveyed by the book's illustrations, which were drawn by Ronni Solbert, Merrill's life partner and frequent collaborator).
