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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlædnəs/
• 韻: -ædnəs
• ハイフネーション: glad‧ness

名詞

gladness (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gladnesses)

1. The state of being glad; joy.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     But as time, as time will, drew on, and Watt's period of service on the ground floor approached its term, then this wish and this fear, and so this sorrow and this gladness, like so many other wishes and fears, so many other sorrows and gladnesses, grew duller and duller and gradually ceased to be felt, at all.