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sunshininess en · NOUN

Etymology

From sunshiny + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or characteristic of being sunshiny.
   • Accordingly, the director, Jenny Koons, has encouraged a tinny sunshininess from the actors, though there are moments, particularly if Frazier and Tyo let their smiles droop, when we sense the play’s taproots reaching down for anger. 2023, April 13. Helen Shaw. "Soap Operas as Guiding Light: Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi’s 'Regretfully, So the Birds Are' and Michael R. Jackson’s 'White Girl in Danger'", The New Yorker magazine
   • Having great confidence in your valuable opinion on practical scientific subjects, I would very greatly appreciate your volunteer opinon as to the value of a machine I have thought of ... to wit: The recording of the revolutions of a Crooke's Radiometer by an electrical recorder, the selective motion, or number of revolutions to indicate the comparative sunshininess or cloudiness of the days. 1888, August 2. Piromis Hulsey Bell. "Letter from Piromis H Bell to Thomas Alva Edison", Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University