thankfulness

thankfulness

English

Etymology

thankful +‎ -ness

Noun

thankfulness (usually uncountable, plural thankfulnesses)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (state of being thankful): appreciation, gratefulness, gratitude

Translations

state of showing thanks

Danish: taknemmelighed (da) c, taknemlighed Dutch: dankbaarheid (nl) f Esperanto: dankemeco Finnish: kiitollisuus (fi) French: gratitude (fr) f, reconnaissance (fr) f Georgian: მადლიერება (madliereba) German: Dankbarkeit (de) f

Greek: ευγνωμοσύνη (el) f (evgnomosýni) Latin: gratia (la) f Latvian: pateicība f Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f Romanian: recunoștință (ro) f Spanish: gratitud (es) f, agradecimiento (es) m