Synonyms of gayness

gayness

noun

as in glee

a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter

the melancholy-tinged gayness of college-bound friends on their last fling together before going their separate ways

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glee
• cheerfulness
• merriness
• festivity
• cheer
• gayety
• mirth
• hilarity
• cheeriness
• gleefulness
• joviality
• joyfulness
• mirthfulness
• humor
• brightness
• gaiety
• revelling
• merriment
• joking
• reveling
• jocundity
• funning
• playfulness
• levity
• frivolity
• buoyancy
• sunniness
• revelry
• jollity
• animation
• buffoonery
• insouciance
• lightheartedness
• sportiveness
• flippancy
• jollification
• jocosity
• jocularity
• vivacity
• clownishness
• joyousness
• jauntiness
• giddiness
• liveliness
• jocoseness
• gamesomeness
• perkiness
• jubilance
• good-naturedness
• rejoicing
• joshing
• gambolling
• jesting
• good-humoredness
• gamboling
• frolicking
• romping
• rollicking
• jest

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sadness
• unhappiness
• depression
• sorrow
• gravity
• blues
• seriousness
• bile
• dejection
• melancholy
• gloom
• earnestness
• spleen
• sourness
• grimness
• forlornness
• solemnity
• discontent
• despondence
• blackness
• soberness
• moodiness
• darkness
• joylessness
• mournfulness
• disgruntlement
• woe
• graveness
• plaintiveness
• solemnness
• misery
• gloominess
• glumness
• sobersidedness
• mourning
• heartbreak
• desolation
• wretchedness
• desolateness
• woefulness
• dolefulness
• dolorousness
• miserableness