thankfulness
English
Etymology
Noun
thankfulness (usually uncountable, plural thankfulnesses)
- The state of being thankful.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Synonyms
- (state of being thankful): appreciation, gratefulness, gratitude
Translations
state of showing thanks
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