good-humoredness

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Noun
  • Still, you'll be rewarded with top-notch picture processing matched with vibrant brightness and colors, as well as Samsung's pedestal-style floating-screen design and plenty of gaming features.
    Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 11 July 2025
  • Solar geoengineering activities involve cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight into space through the dispersal of small particles into the upper atmosphere or by increasing the size and brightness of clouds over the ocean, among other ideas.
    Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Holder explains that water therapy tends to be helpful because buoyancy reduces stress on the joints and makes muscle training easier.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 June 2025
  • But large mounds cannot remain spherical because gases go up and down in response to buoyancy, and buoyancy breaks the symmetry.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The teams first played each other in football in 1884, but in 1888, Lehigh fans reportedly burned down the makeshift bleachers at the stadium in the postgame revelry of a win (a pre-Lafayette bonfire became a Lehigh tradition).
    David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • When the group eventually made it to the top, the Sherpas celebrated, but Siffredi was exhausted from the 12-hour climb and didn’t celebrate in the revelry, according to TransWorld Snowboarding, as his mission wasn’t finished: summiting wasn’t the goal, snowboarding down the Hornbein Couloir was.
    Mark Gray, People.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The free-living, hard-drinking Brett uses wit and jollity to mask her inner desperation.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • Some years at Cannes, the Med’s most effervescent seasonal kickoff, the bubbles and spice of the social froth provide the jollity.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • But there is something wry and resigned lurking behind those chord changes, an insouciance to Dorian’s vocals, that suggests something deeper and bigger brewing — the sound of a fairly labyrinthine songwriting mind just starting to awaken to its potential.
    Jayson Greene, Vulture, 30 May 2025
  • Hunte drew on his experience with suiting and leather to throw up two outfits—one, despite its masculine theme and model, completely androgynous; the other, a paean to female insouciance—that flouted conventional rules of draping and layering.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Good-humoredness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/good-humoredness. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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